title: SECONDARY DESIGNATIONS OF NATIONALITIES IN MODERN UKRAINIAN AS ONE OF THE SIGNS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AND A MANIFESTATION OF ETHNOCENTRISM
abstract: The purpose of this article is to investigate secondary designations of nationalities of a pejorative type in modern Ukrainian, using material from fiction, scientific sources and lexical dictionaries. On the basis of the collected material, we analyzed these designations as one of the aspects of the national identity shaping, as well as the negative side of this phenomenon — ethnocentrism. The analysis revealed extralinguistics and linguistic factors that influenced the formation of the Ukraini
journal: Advanced Linguistics