Бакалаврські роботи | Bachelor theses

Bachelor’s thesis was based on the material of eight English language works of fantasy genre, namely, ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman, ‘Wyrd Sisters’ by Terry Pratchett, ‘Ninth House’ by Leigh Bardugo and ‘The Broken Earth’ trilogy by N.K.Jemisin. In the first chapter of this thesis, we analyzed the word-formation process of the English language and defined the concepts of new coinages and nonce-formations. Different approaches to the classification of new coinages were explored, the functions of new coinages in literature, as well as their peculiarities for the fantasy genre, were determined. In the second chapter of this thesis, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of new coinages in chosen literary works within the framework of external and internal matrix of lexicogenesis by Jean Turnier, discussed in the first chapter. The quantity and structural classification of the method of coinages was accounted for and the most frequently used ones were determined. All found new coinages were divided into subgroups according to the functions they perform in the text. In conclusion we formulated the role and importance of the new coinages for the fantasy genre. The thesis contains 87 pages, 3 tables, 20 figures, 48 units of theoretical material.