ON THE ISSUE OF THE MEANS OF SUBJECT NOMINATION IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

"This article examines the problem of the means of subject nomination in modern English. A necessary condition prerequisite for the functioning of language as a means of human communication is its ability to name because it designates various objects and phenomena of objective reality by linguistic means. Nominative units of language are, so to speak, the building material for communicative units since the process of information transfer in the act of linguistic communication is based on the direct introduction into the utterance of words signifier previously unmentioned denotations. In general, naming can be defined as the relation of the planes of the signified and the signifier, represented by the connection of the linguistic unit with the real object. In this article only one type of linguistic nomination is considered – subject nomination. Subject nomination differs from the other types of nomination mainly by the nature of the so-called real objects. The plane of the signified is represented in it by a set of designations, the main feature of which is «materiality», (subjectivity in a broad sense), whereas denotations of other types of nomination are characterized either by processuality (verbal nomination) or by characterization (adjectival and adverbial nomination). The study of the subject nomination in English is carried out both in terms of the signified (the structure of the denotation) and in terms of the signifier (the linguistic means of expressing the denotation). The starting point of the analysis is a set of linguistic units that serve to express subject denotations. Keywords: means of communication, language means, subject nomination, plane of the signifier, plane of the signified, denotation, global nomination, dissected nomination."