Полисемия и прототип в англоязычном банковском дискурсе

Abstract

This paper focuses on polysemy from the position of cognitive linguistics. The application of the cognitive approach has led to the identification of polysemantic terms in banking discourse. A large-scale corpus analysis of English banking discourse (1,888,728 words) has been conducted to determine the evolution of banking terms. The article defines the scope of research, showing that the study of semantic relations, traditionally restricted to lexical semantics, needs to be extended to include corpus-driven methods and prototype semantics. Thus, statistical analysis gives the researcher a possibility to model the data and to test the accuracy of analyses by using these models. The article poses a hypothesis which can be formulated in the following way: "high frequency and recurrence of different forms of banking terms in the banking discourse for nomination of one and the same concept forms a stable association".

Статья посвящена исследованию полисемии с позиций когнитивной лингвистики. Применение когнитивного подхода позволило выявить многозначные термины в банковском дискурсе.