The paper presents an onomasiological analysis of the conceptual field "Education" exemplified by the vocabulary of the national variants of the French language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada (Province of Quebec) with the aim to establish the basic nomination principles and identify inter-variational differences within the framework of three sectors of the conceptual field "Education": "Educational institutions (établissement d'enseignement)", "Teaching staff (personnel enseignant)", "Students (étudiants)". The basic principles of nominating in the field of education are identified by considering the internal conceptual structure of the language units under analysis; inter-variational differences and alterations are stated by categorical-and-semantic comparability of the differentiation semes in the nominations of three sectors of the conceptual field "Education". The analysis allows to conclude that there exist generic categorical-and-semantic instances within nomination structures that indicate location of training or teaching, specialty, disciplines studied or taught, age, status of the teacher or student, level and methodology of training. In designation of objects in the sectors of the conceptual field "Education" lexical units get into hypernym-and-hyponym relations, thus categorically every sector is formed around some basic concept that is explicated in a hypernym, general nomination for four territorial variants of French, and a set of hyponyms that are more specific and not alike in the exemplification of general semes. The onomasiological analysis of the conceptual field "Education" reveals intervariational concomitant or alternating features, especially in sectors of "Educational institutions (établissement d'enseignement)", "Students (étudiants)" due to certain social-and-institutional reasons.
Abstract-The article is devoted to the study of the lexical and semantic field as a microsystem of multiple lexical units united by common meaning of the word 'education' and reflecting the given conceptual field in the language. Aggregation of the linguistic units by their semantic content is the base of field lexical and semantic modeling. The concept of the field makes it possible to describe the microstructural interactions of the linguistic units. The units of the same language field reflect the objective, conceptual or functional similarities of the phenomena being described; therefore, the field model represents a dialectical connection between linguistic phenomena and the extralinguistic world. The article presents the system-based approach to field modeling of the language system; explores the semantic field of words and their lexical and semantic types; establishes their similarities and differences; identifies the types of semantic field research. Both the similarities and differences were revealed at the denotative and significative levels, which made it possible to identify denotative, significative and denotative-significative divergents. On the one hand, the specific realities, and, on the other hand, the special logical and evaluative understanding of the French, Belgians, Swiss and Canadians are used in these studies as the objects of the names in such countries as France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.Keywords-Lexical and semantic field, lexical and semantic types, significative divergents, denotative divergents, intervariant synonymy, intervariant conceptual field.
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