STRUCTURE AND PECULIARITIES OF LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD “INTERNET”

Abstract

The article examines composition and structure of the lexical-semantic field INTERNET. The most important part of the study are the nouns that are included in the field. That is caused by the fact that lexemes in the field are denotatively precise. As a result of the conducted research, vocabulary denoting Internet is systematized and distributed into thematic groups and subgroups based on the onomasiological principle. Syntagmatic, paradigmatic and derivational correlations within the field are also analyzed. The study allows to identify the following mechanisms of the formation of the vocabulary: direct borrowings (сайт, юзер), semantic tracing (облачное хранилище), word-formation derivation (блог/бложик) and semantic derivation (новостная лента). The paper also studies cases of polysemy development in some subgroups and the inclusion of lexical units into several thematic groups. The results of the study can be used when creating modern explanatory and other types of dictionaries.