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The article deals with the results of the work with graduate students of philology. The study provides the methodological tools for interpreting the texts in relation to modern interpretative tendencies. In the context of our study a literary text is a model of reality representing the real world – its material and ideal components. The reconstruction of such components requires the use of certain methodology and contributes to the perception of the world picture of a nation. The research develops a typology of English poetic texts based on the principle of interpretativeness. The article provides methodological tools for acquainting students of philological department with these strategies and tactics. The poetic text interpretation in cognitive poetics was made by four-year students of the philological orientation of training. The study was grounded on a competence-based approach in the training of prospective philologists.

The article considers the need for the elaboration of the modern strategy for text interpretation by prospective philologists. This issue caused by the new tendencies in higher professional education aimed at developing new theoretical approaches to updating the content and methods of pedagogical activity. In the focus area of modern educational process are methods of enriching the students’ culturological background, since the scope of tasks the institutions of higher education for the humanities set today incorporates the training of qualified graduates having profound theoretical learning in philosophy, cultural studies, and art. The very hermeneutical approach contributes to effective training of prospective philologists to decode the author’s message having its deep-lying roots in the textual space. The continuous text analysis is developed for the students of different educational and academic background but able to interpret the text under study. Such an approach to the study of the textual content and composition may presuppose the students’ reference to lexicographic resources of culture, history, symbols, philosophy, etc. We consider this methodological tool to be the most effective and promising in training the prospective philologists able to perceive and interpret continuously any text in class or independently.

The research featured the English terms related to the sphere of mixed martial arts (MMA) and their word-formation. A detailed analysis of the structure of MMA terms made it possible to distinguish one-, two-, three-, four-, and polycomponential terminological units. One-componential terms were represented by linguistic units expressed by a word with different morphemic composition. Two-componential terms were represented by word-combinations with a noun, an adjective, or a verb (or its forms) as their core elements. Via complex contraction, three- and four-componential terminological units could be transformed into abbreviations. The polycomponential terminological units were few and expressed by gerund word-combinations. The research also revealed related principles of nomination and formation: semantic, morphological, and syntactical. The semantic way was realized via indirect nomination, i.e. metaphor and metonymy. The morphological way was represented by affixation, compounding, and abbreviation. The syntactic way was used to coin the MMA terms expressed by word combinations and gerund word-combinations. The paper focuses on the dominant models and the key types of terminological word-combination, e.g. substantive and attributive