STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF COMPLEX WORDS OF POLITICAL LEXICON IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This paper considers structural and semantic features of compound words of the political vocabulary of the German language. Of interest is the activity of compounding as a way of forming German political vocabulary. These phenomena are especially diverse in journalistic articles. It is social and political journalism that has more expressiveness of the conveyed information compared to the official business style. There are different ways of classifying complex words. In this article we analyze complex words from the viewpoint of structure and semantics. Complex words of certain languages have already been exposed to scholarly studies, but too little attention is given to studying political vocabulary since political text as an object of public communication is very rich in complex words. Many complex words are lexicalized in German political vocabulary, which confirms the need for their full and detailed analysis from a structural-semantic viewpoint. This fact determines the topicality of the article. The purpose of this article is to study the structural and semantic features of political vocabulary represented by compounds. The main research methods are the method of continuous sampling, the descriptive, comparative methods and the method of semantic analysis, as well as the method of analysis for the directly constituent components, which made it possible to draw generalized conclusions according to the results of the research.