«МІЙ ДИРДИР». ФУТБОЛЬНА ЛЕКСИКА В МАЛІЙ ПРОЗІ АНДРІЯ БОНДАРЯ

The article deals with the Ukrainian football lexicon found in the small prose and essays
from the collections «To those in the tombs» and «Carrot ice» by modern writer Andriy Bondar.
The topicality of the research is to try to maximize the use of all possible sources of football lexicon
functioning including fiction texts for consideration Ukrainian football discourse. Fragments of
works by Andriy Bondar, where the lexicon of football is used, are selected, names are classified
according to the thematic principle, semantics of these football nominations is revealed. As a result
of the conducted analysis we found out that the football lexicon in the texts of Andriy Bondar represents
following thematic groups: names of football game, names of football match, types of football
matches, names of football teams and their nicknames, names of players and those involved in
football, the names of the football pitch and its parts, football inventory, titles of game regulations,
the names of the strategy and tactics in football, the names of the elements of football game and actions
of players, the names of football tournaments and the stages of their conduct, titles of matches,
tournaments and titles of winners, names of supporters and their support of the team. The analysis
showed that football discourse in Andriy Bondar’s works is presented very diversely, lexemes from
all the most important thematic groups of football lexicon are used, being the evidence that the
author is aware with football realities and the appearance of football themes in his writings is not
accidental, because, as Andriy Bondar admits in one of the essays: «... I was in a football section
from eight to fifteen years. For the whole seven years of my life I was seriously planning to become
a footballer».