ENGLISH SPYCRAFT PROFESSIONALISMS AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON

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https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.121575

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English Spycraft terms, espionage, compounding, affixation, abbreviation, metaphor, metonymy

Abstract

The article defines and classifies English Spycraft professionalisms (ESP) as lexical units denoting main espionage concepts. It establishes that, because of inconsistency with the ‘terminology’ requirements (basically, lack of exact definitions, abundance of synonyms, and connotation colourings), these lexical units can be placed only under ‘professionalisms’ category. They include vocabulary with various degrees of formality: from official to very colloquial. The article also provides detailed ESP morphological and semantic analyses. Morphology demonstrates the three basic groups of ESP building means: compounding (formation of ESP complex phrases with several words of different parts of speech), affixation (using prefixes and suffixes), and abbreviation (shortening of Spycraft words and phrases of different kinds). Semantics finds out metaphor and metonymy as conversion means of ESP formation. The most frequently occurring metaphors across ESP are those of personification, process, container, time, animation and orientation. Metonymy is used among the ESP to figuratively name facts from espionage activity. All the ESP linguistic peculiarities are clearly illustrated by a large number of up-to-date examples derived from various English language open access resources. These examples were carefully singled out and collected as a research vocabulary corpus to be entered into the dictionary being prepared for the publication in the nearest future.

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Author Biographies

Oleksandr Lahodynskyi, Military Diplomatic Academy named after Yevheniy Bereznyak

Head of  foreign languages department, doctor of pedagogical sciences, associate-professor

Kostyantyn Mamchur, Military Diplomatic Academy named after Yevheniy Bereznyak

Kostiantyn Mamchur is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Eugeniy Berezniak Military Diplomatic Academy. He received his doctorate in Pedagogy from National Defence University of Ukraine. His recent publications include Learning Arabic as a foreign language and “The Blended Learning Potential in Future Diplomats Foreign Languages Professional Competence Acquisition,” The Kazakh-American Free University Academic Journal (January, 2013). His research interests include the teachers' training, education for adults, English and Arabic linguistics, and he is currently working in the project connected with training the trainers.

Volodymyr Skab, Military Diplomatic Academy named after Yevheniy Bereznyak

Volodymyr Skab is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Eugeniy Berezniak Military Diplomatic Academy. He received his doctorate in Pedagogy from National Defence University of Ukraine. His research interests include the teachers' training, education for adults, English and Italian linguistics, international relations. He is currently working in the project connected with training the trainers.

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2018-06-16

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Lahodynskyi, O., Mamchur, K., & Skab, V. (2018). ENGLISH SPYCRAFT PROFESSIONALISMS AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON. Advanced Education, 5, 178–184. https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.121575

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2018: Issue 9

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Linguistics

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