Occasionalisms as an object of study of pedagogical linguistics (based on media materials)

Abstract

The article examines the influence of occasionalisms on the semantic structure of the text. The object of study was media materials, as well as sources of Internet communication (blogs, forums; posts and comments in them), the subject was the authors and communicants themselves. The creative, individual, authorial, expressive nature of occasionalisms is emphasized; the presence of an intellectual component in their interpretation. Classes of objects subject to occasional influence are identified, in particular, the political sphere, sociocultural sphere, nature, and interpersonal relationships. The features of meaning transfer are analyzed in comparison with already known semantic patterns. Attention is paid to the relationship between the linguistic experience of the individual and the social environment in which it is realized. Based on the research carried out, conclusions are drawn about occasionalization as a means by which, in the process of mental activity, in the mind of an individual not only are manifested, but also comprehended, parallels and analogies are drawn, and also acquire modality, evaluativeness, and emotionality of the picture of the surrounding world; about the obvious progress of occasional word creation, the need for systematization in this lexical layer with the prospect of compiling corresponding dictionaries. Occasionalism, thus, becomes a tool through which the realities of reality are studied, when at the level of thinking, the corresponding conceptual content, mental analogues of objects are operated.