English Lexemes Nominating Nobility Semantics and Evolution under Different Socio-cultural Context

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The relevance of the work is determined by the fact that, although the interaction of history, culture and language is constantly in the field of view of linguists, historians, linguoculturologists, as well as all those who study the evolution of a particular language, it has not yet received a complete analysis in detail, in particular, when describing the language pictures of different countries. The aim of the work is to prove that the semantics of the words of nominating titles of the English nobility of the Victorian era has not changed. The materials for the work were modern and classical, starting from the XIX century, word usage from the English language, contained in modern media texts from Internet sources, as well as the texts of novels by English writers of the late XIX century. At least 2000 such word usages were analyzed using the method of etymological analysis, the method of semantic analysis and the method of functional analysis, which allowed us to obtain a reliable picture of their functioning. The triple union of history, culture and language in the approach to the study of linguistic pictures of different countries is at the center of research in recent years. The interaction of these phenomena has become the subject of close attention in many articles and dissertations of linguists, historians, linguoculturologists, as well as all those who study the evolution of a particular language. Lexemes denoting the noble status of a person are important concepts of the British national linguistic picture of the world and culture. The semantics of lexemes was studied according to lexicographic sources. The sources of examples of contextual use were the texts of novels by English writers of the late XIX century and modern English-language texts of the Internet: online versions of newspapers, advertising texts, blogs. To achieve the goal of our research, the article uses such methods as the method of continuous sampling, the method of lexicographic description, the comparative method, the statistical method, and a number of others.

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Galina T. Bezkorovaynaya

Moscow Polytechnical University (Higher school of print and media industry)

Author for correspondence.
Email: begati1@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0931-1772

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Department of Foreign languages

38, Bolshaya Semenovskaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 107023

Yulia N. Ebzeeva

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN university)

Email: ebzeeva_yun@rudn.university
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0043-7590

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Chair of Department of Foreign languages, Philological Faculty

6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198

Luisa N. Gishkaeva

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN university)

Email: gishkaeva_ln@rudn.university
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7627-5375

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Department of Foreign languages, Philological Faculty, Deputy Dean of Philological Faculty for Scientific affairs,Rector’s Adviser for partnership affairs

6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198

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