LINGUISTIC PORTRAIT OF THE NOUN МАСТЕР IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article tests the linguistic portrait of the word master in modern Russian language. The main tasks of this study are about analyzing the semantics and features of functioning of the noun master. The study is based on the lexicographic sources of Russian language, on the contexts from the site of National Corpus of the Russian Language, Internet user comments, also on the results of the survey among Russian native speakers; about summarizing the relevant characteristics of the noun, which is tested. As a result, this analysis identifies the most common meanings of the noun master, meanwhile it presented a synonymic series of this word. In addition, this work summarized the noun’s peculiarities of the functioning in its the most commonly used meanings in different types of discourse, also it determined the place of this word among its semantically close units. The results of this study can be used in the practice, which is related to teaching Russian as a foreign language, also the conclusions of this work can be used while holding the lectures and seminars about lexical semantics and lexicology.