Precedent Names in Modern Print Mass Media English

Abstract

The relevance of this article lies in the fact that the study of precedent names is associated with the problem of participation in intercultural communication, which is one of the main problems of linguistics. Precedent is considered as a phenomenon, without a deep analysis of which understanding the meaning of the text is often impossible. In addition, studying traces of the presence of the most significant texts of the past in newspaper and magazine articles of our time helps to identify patterns of cultural transmission from generation to generation. Research objectives: 1) to reveal the essence of the concept of “precedent name”; 2) to carry out semantization of selected precedent names; 3) to carry out a contextual analysis of precedent names in the texts of English-language articles. Research methods: continuous sampling method, semantization, contextual analysis.