Semantic Groups of Vocabulary in Sports Reports

Authors

  • Gevorg Barseghyan Faculty of European Languages and Communication, Yerevan State University, Armenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2020.16.2.047

Keywords:

semantic groups of vocabulary, semantic similarity and difference, synonymy, contextual synonyms, antonymy

Abstract

Nowadays sports as a separate component of social life includes a great many varieties which enable millions of sportsmen and fans to communicate with one another. Thorough research is carried out on various aspects of sport: from the philosophy of sports to exquisite psychological observations of individual sportmen. Thus the study of the forms and the style of sports reports as well as their linguostylistic peculiarities has become an imperative. The aim of our research is to reveal the characteristic features of sports reports with reference to the vocabulary used, namely – the semantic groups most frequently occurring in sports speech.

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Published

2020-10-15

How to Cite

Barseghyan, G. (2020). Semantic Groups of Vocabulary in Sports Reports. Armenian Folia Anglistika, 16(2 (22), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2020.16.2.047

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (22) (2020)

Section

Linguistics

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Copyright (c) 2020 Gevorg Barseghyan

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