Peculiarities of using anglicisms in the texts of regional news

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of using English borrowings in the texts of Ukrainian regional news and their influence on the use of regional dialects in everyday speech. In addition, in this article, the concept of “anglicism” is revealed, and the main reasons for the presence of anglicisms in regional news are explained. On the basis of regional news, the most commonly used English borrowings are identified, and illustrations of their use in news articles are provided. Because of the descriptive and comparative methods, the peculiarities of the use of foreign borrowings in news texts are analyzed. The given article provides the possible Ukrainian dialect equivalents for popular anglicisms. On the basis of the general regionally annotated corpus of the Ukrainian language, the most common Ukrainian words with which anglicisms are combined (on the basis of the newspaper “Vysokyi Zamok”) were studied. It is established that it can be the combinations with adjectives and verbs or with proper names. In the process of analyzing the selected English borrowings, the main semantic changes to which these lexical units are subjected are characterized. Since most of the borrowings are polysemantic words, they often change their meaning in the process of adaptation to the lexical-semantic system of the Ukrainian language. Anglicisms are subjected to such semantic changes as the expansion, contraction and preservation of the meaning of the word. In order to fully characterize the changes in the meaning of the word, the article presents the definitions recorded in the dictionaries of English and Ukrainian languages and compares them with the meanings in which English borrowings are used in regional news. Examples of anglicisms with extended and narrowed semantics and those that do not change their meaning in the process of borrowing, are provided. Considering of the problem regarding the emergence of anglicisms in news texts is relevant today, taking into account the rapid development of Ukraine in international relations.