TELESCOPING AS THE MODERN METHOD OF WORD FORMATION OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VOCABULARY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of telescopy as one of the most effective and popular ways of word formation. The intensity of sociopolitical processes determines the instantaneous emergence of telescopisms to denote new realities and concepts. That is why we have chosen the source base of social networks as the most favorable for the formation of telescopic units due to their novelty and expressiveness. Analysis of the works of many scientists shows that they do not have a unanimous opinion on the concept of telescopy. Most scientists tend to consider telescopy as a separate way of word formation. There is also no single name to denote this method of word formation. Scientists use the following concepts: ingot words, amalgam words, purse words, contamination, blends, blending, telescopy, telescopisms, and so on. We treat telescopy as an independent way of forming new lexical units, which consists in superimposing arbitrary fragments of several source components. The reason for the special expressiveness and stylistic coloring of telescopisms is their associative nature. That is why researchers of telescopisms create classifications according to their structural and semantic features. The purpose of the research is to identify and describe the most frequent structural and semantic features of telescopic groups of socio-political vocabulary. The collected factual material allowed us to identify 10 groups of telescopisms depending on the characteristics of the fusion of components. The most frequent are the following groups: telescopies formed by merging the beginning of the first component with a full-fledged second; telescopies formed by the merger of a full-fledged first component with the end of the second; telescopies formed by merging the beginning of the first component with the end of the second. Within the majority of the group, models are singled out according to the semantic content of the components. The studied language material proves that telescopy is a productive independent model of word formation of socio-political vocabulary of the modern Ukrainian language. Rethinking the semantics of tokens available in the language is based on common language laws. These laws determine the emergence of new meanings, the scope of functioning, narrowing or expanding semantics.