STEREOTYPICAL PERCEPTION OF TOKENS OF THE THEMATIC GROUP «ITALIAN FOOD» BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

The article considers the nominations of dishes and drinks of Italian cuisine, which are popular in Ukraine and have appropriate names in the Ukrainian language. The study presents the results of a linguistic experiment, which was stimulated by the phrase - the nomination of the lexical-semantic group "Italian food". The complex of received tokens is singled out, the character of semantic connections and the main semantic groups of nominations are determined, and also the peculiarities of informants' perception of the concept of "Italian food" are traced, which included both food and drink nominations. Thematic groups of vocabulary for the designation of Italian dishes and drinks obtained as a result of the conducted linguistic experimentare determined. The stereotypical nature of the perception of Italian food and drinks by native speakers of the Ukrainian language is substantiated.