МОВНА КАРТИНА СВІТУ ФУТБОЛЬНИХ ФАНАТІВ
LANGUAGE MAPPING OF FOOTBALL FANS’ WORLD

Summary/Abstract: In this article specific realia which are typical for football fans environment have been examined; also vocabulary which denominates the peculiar world of representatives of this subculture has been considered. Language mapping of football fans’ world has been described on the basis of the analysis of specific words reflecting values which are significant for the members of this social group. The stress has been made on the aspects of verbal self-identification of Ukrainian football fans, especially on differentiation of key notions such as „ultras” and „hooligans”. The pivotal opposition „own — alien” for this football fans group has been analysed, special attention has been paid to nominations which are used by football fans for naming police, stadium securities, referees, football officials, etc. It has been found out that the lexemes of the social dialect of Ukrainian football fans were for the most part created due to expansion of semantics of commonly used words of the Ukrainian language and also loanwords from different languages and youth slang.

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