CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGEME: FORMULATION AND APPLICATION IN LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article examines the problem of instability of the definition of the term “ideologeme” and identifies a summarizing version based on those proposed by scholars earlier. The article also describes the process of identifying a particular lexeme as an ideologically marked one and the main characteristics of such a linguistic unit. The paper emphasizes such a characteristic feature  of ideologemes as dependence on the conjuncture, as well as the tendency to change semantic meaning over time, and gives an example based on a comparison of Ukrainian dictionaries from the 1970s to the present. The problem of lexicographic description of ideologemes and their labeling in dictionaries is also mentioned. It is proposed to define ideologically marked units as those primarily belonging to the political sphere, and to indicate their stylistic or emotional-expressive evaluation, if necessary.