Information on the thesis

The thesis is devoted to the complex study of formal-semantic and
sociopragmatic features of precedent names in the texts of political speeches in
Ukrainian, Polish, and French. Based on the developed theoretical model and applied
methods, it justifies the need for studying the content of precedent units as a
prerequisite for further analysis: content indicators illustrate source spheres of origin
and thematic groups within their limits, which help to distinguish between universal
and national precedent units. The revealed content characteristics made it possible to
study the formal semantic signs of precedent names: nominative variants, structural
semantic models, derivative productivity, and semantic variation. The analysis of the
sociopragmatic properties of these units elicits their ability to be the agents of
influence, ideology markers, and tools for constructing identities in presidents’
speeches.
The results of the study were partly included in the dictionary ‘Universal and
national precedent names in the speeches of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, and
France: 1991−2016.’
The results obtained in the thesis regarding common and distinctive signs of
precedent names at the level of content, forms, and functions brought to light in the
process of a comprehensive study of these units in political speeches reveal the nature
of precedent names as being a synthesis of universal and national components.
However, these findings require verification in other genres of political discourse and
more languages. In this, we see the prospect of research.
Key words: sociolinguistics, a precedent name, president’s speech, political
discourse, universal precedent names, national precedent names, linguistic signs of
precedent names, linguistic influence, ideology, identity, linguistic culture.