Information on the thesis

For the first time in Ukrainian ethnolingustics, the semiotic criteria for
identification of stereotype verbalizers of various degrees of formation (of different
strength / culturally reflecting potential) were established on the basis of artistic realist
texts. The correlation between the nominative and communicative functions of means
of stereotype verbalization was settled in the paper (we distinguish nominative and
communicative stereotype verbalizers); the features of stereotype verbalizers of
different structural complexity and different degrees of formation (non-derivative,
derivative, phraseologism, semantically connected word combination, paroemia,
semantically connected sentence) were taken into account; the method of cognitive
definition by delineating the width of reference of communicative senses, which refer
to the constituents of conventional notion of different structural complexity and
abstractedness (i.e. to characteristics, statements and inferences), was improved. The
thesis also covers the evolution of approaches towards linguistic nature of the
stereotype and the methodology of research of this phenomenon in ethnolingustics.
Binary evaluation of the stereotype is connected with a particular form of thinking:
inference, so culturally reflecting potential of the stereotype depends on the number of
inferences which became reactions to the stimuli of the object of observation. Two main
approaches to analysis of the verbalization means (static and dynamic) allowed to
methodologically distinguish cultural profiling of the stereotype as the connotative
abstraction which is verbalized by nominative units of different structural and semantic
complexity and text profiling of specific actualizations of stereotypes through
connotative trails verbalized in micro-, macro- and megacontexts of artistic texts of the
second half of the 19th cen. under comparison.
The advisability of using artistic texts as a material for ethnolinguistic research is
substantiated. Artistic texts as fixed discourse reflect the dynamics of nominative means
of stereotype verbalization. Frequency of usage of synonymic names with different
structural complexity points at the process of strengthening or weakening of the
verbalized stereotype. There are 6 nominative forms: non-derivative word, derivative
word, phraseologized word combination, semantically connected word combination,
paroemia, semantically connected sentence (total of 494 nominative units). Verbalizers
of one conventional notion include diminutives, synonyms and derived names of
different structural complexity.
Key words: stereotype, conventional notion, stereotypization, conceptualization,
categorization, verbalization, nominative unit, communicative unit, conventionality,
communicative relevance.