SOCIO-POLITICAL LEXICS IN UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTS OF THE XVIII CENTURY (ON THE MATERIAL OF “TREATY AND COVENANT OF LAWS AND LIBERTIES” BY P. ORLYK)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the socio-political vocabulary of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties”. The concept of socio-political vocabulary is defined. The consequences of interlingual and intercultural contacts of Ukrainians in the XVII-XVIII centuries were traced within the lexical level of speech. “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” reproduces the interaction of different language codes in the XVII-XVIII centuries. “Treaty and Covenant…” has a high variation on phonetic and grammatical levels, developed synonymy of nominative means and complicated syntax. In the socio-political lexics of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” five semantic groups were allocated: 1) military lexics; 2) names of juristical documents; 3) names of the selected titles; 4) names of inherited titles; 5) juristical lexics. The socio-political vocabulary of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” is defined by influences of Church Slavonic, Latin, Polish and, in part, Russian languages. Most units in the semantic groups are easily recognizable by the native speakers of the modern Ukrainian language. This fact outlines the prospects for further research in socio-political vocabulary.