STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GASTRONOMIC VOCABULARY IN MODERN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FEATURE FILM

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the diversity of semantic types and structural models of gastronomic vocabulary in the context of modern English-language film text. The article offers results of an analysis of the structural and semantic types of gluttonyms in the context of everyday and mass culture represented by modern cinematography. The variety of semantic types and structural models of gastronomic vocabulary has been revealed. Special attention is paid to the role of the linguistic and cultural component of the lexeme, which conveys background knowledge through a single word, as well as phraseology with a national and cultural component of meaning. It has been established that in the cinematic discourse, a gluttonym acts as an element of an English-speaking culture or a translator of a foreign language linguoculture, which can be presented in the form of full and partial borrowing. The research uses methods of contextual, semantic and stylistic analysis. The paper presents quantitative data based on the recurrence of the investigated lexical units in the analyzed films, the authors outline some further vectors for relevant research.