RECREATION OF ETHNOCULTURAL VOCABULARY IN S. MAUGHAM’S WORK «THE MOON AND SIXPENCE»

Abstract

This article considers the phenomenon of ethnocultural vocabulary as a whole: it gives a complete theoretical overview, its functioning and features of the manifestation of such ethnolexemes in linguoculturology. In the modern world, thanks to global and intensive cooperation between people, we, first of all, must know the history of another people, culture, the intricacies of life, mentality, the spiritual side expressed in their language. Words having a special part in the meanings characterizing the connection of language with culture are called the semantic-cultural component of the language unit. Such words include realias, exotisms, phraseologisms, idiomatic expressions, toponyms and ethnonyms.

The work presents an analysis of ethnocultural vocabulary in the context of the novel by the outstanding contemporary writer Somerset Maugham «The Moon and Sixpence». Thanks to detailed linguistic analysis, we see that the study of such ethnolexemes is very important in the knowledge of the history and culture of other people, their mentality and spirituality, which is the fundamental component of the successful cooperation of them. The result was an analysis of the collected corpus of ethnocultural vocabulary by the continuous sampling method: the activity of such ethnolexemes in the novel was determined, the frequency and their lexical meaning were established using lexical analysis.