Բառակերտութիւնը որպէս լեզուի հաղորդակցական գործառոյթի իրացում

Abstract

Human society is unable to live and invent without communication and information exchange and without the necessary means to realize its aims. The last decades of the 20th century and especially the 21th century are considered to be the most dynamic phases in the development of society. The West and its culture, its free market economy, socio-political developments, and technological progress, have been reflected in diverse new notions, which have appeared in the vocabulary of languages. The author argues that language as a basic means of human communication is an entity that has an interrelated system of words, word stock and grammatical structures. The author underlines the fact that language as a means of communication is prone to dying out unless it is enriched with new words that reflect the new developments of life and society. Indeed, what would happen to a language if it failed in transmitting the ideas of people to each other and stopped being a mean of conveying information and feelings from one person to another? Finally, the author denotes two methods of word formation for the Armenian language: linear/morphemic, which for centuries has been a dominant tool for enriching and enlarging the Armenian vocabulary, and nonlinear/inner which is the result of a specific modification of meanings, morphological features and syntactic applications of the word. A third track of enriching Armenian has been borrowing words from other languages.