Abstract
The paper deals with characteristics of Anglicisms that operate in the contemporary Russian slang with the emphasis on their word-formation features. The penetration of these lexical units into the Russian language provides a researcher with a linguistically interesting material as the English and Russian languages represent typologically different language systems. To begin with, the research focuses on the origin of the individual word bases and affixes from which the Anglicism instances analysed by us are formed. Moreover, we treat the representation of non-motivated and word-motivated lexemes. At the same time, word-formation means, methods and procedures for the formation of Anglicisms in the Russian slang are taken into account. The above-mentioned lexical units find their word-formation realization within these processes: derivation, composition, compounding, clipping, acronyms, blending, conversion, calques, fusion, univerbization and phonetic mimicry. Additionally, they display differences in onomasiological categories across the studied field. With respect to this, we cover the word-formation features of the processes: word-formation strings, paradigms and nests; word-formation types, onomasiological categories and types of onomasiological categories. The practical utilization of the research is possible in the areas of comparative and applied linguistics and translatology when searching for equivalents of lexical units in typologically different languages. Furthermore, the results of the research are applicable in the methodology of teaching foreign languages.
Highlights
Social and political changes which have been occurring in the Russian society in the recent decades have been deeply reflected in the vocabulary of the Russian language
From the point of view of word-formation processes, it is necessary to take into account several aspects that play a key role in creating Anglicisms in the Russian slang
Within all word-formation processes that are summarized below, we focus on the subsequent aspects: 1) the origin of the individual word bases and affixes from which the Anglicism instances analysed by us are formed; 2) the representation of non-motivated and word-motivated lexemes; 3) word-formation means, methods and procedures for the formation of Anglicisms in the Russian slang and the word-formation features of that process: (a) word-formation strings, paradigms and nests; (b) word-formation types, onomasiological categories and types of onomasiological categories
Summary
Social and political changes which have been occurring in the Russian society in the recent decades have been deeply reflected in the vocabulary of the Russian language. Social, political and cultural aspects are of higher importance than the aspect of genetic relations of languages The proof of this is the penetration of lexical units of the English origin into the contemporary Slavic languages (Polozova, 2010). There have appeared few dictionaries of slang and research papers of general linguistic (Furdik, 2004; Kachala, 1992; Kollar, 2001) and methodological (Aristova, 1978; Korensky, 1998; Korensky, 2003) character These studies explore the processes of borrowing new lexical units on the background of communication needs; they do not pay attention to specific linguistic features of loan words. In a similar way, Ondrejovich (1999, p. 79) and Furdik (1993, p. 247) discuss social and political implications that influence mutual contacts of languages in the contemporary society
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