Investigating the Role of English Language Tools Used in Sports Communication Using Linguistic Methods and its Use in Academic Dictionaries

Document Type : Research Article

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Department of European Languages and Cultures, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

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The article discusses the function of proper name-derived English language means in sports communication. The units of study pertain to various aspects of sports, including people, places, things, acts, phenomena, and situations. The referent and the source of nomination are taken into consideration when determining the types of English language units based on proper names. A corpus of original texts comprising 2 836 258 tokens has been assembled by the author. Throughout the study, structural, etymological, contextual, discourse analysis, and typologization methodologies were applied. The proper name has the ability to influence the development of various English language units used in sports communication, such as terms, precedent names, pragmonyms, and nomenclature. The study's findings support the growth of the nomination theory and have applications in the compilation of specialized dictionaries, academic teaching of sociolinguistics, terminological studies, and translation.

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 442-446

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