English-speaking Military Discourse (based on the novel “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”)

Abstract

The Master’s research paper is devoted to the study of structural and semantic features of military vocabulary in English based on the novel “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”.
The research focuses on military vocabulary in English. The empiric material of the research includes 196 military language units selected by continuous sampling from the novel. The main research methods and techniques include the method of continuous sampling, methods of definitional and componential analysis, descriptive method, methods of structural and semantic analysis.