Functioning of Borrowed Lexeme “PR/пиар” in Contemporary Russian Cover Image

Функционирование заимствованной лексемы «pr/пиар» в современном русском языке
Functioning of Borrowed Lexeme “PR/пиар” in Contemporary Russian

Author(s): Jindřiska Kapitanová
Subject(s): Lexis, Pragmatics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, z. ú.
Keywords: Borrowing; assimilation; word formation activity; pragmatization;

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the study is to investigate the peculiarities of functioning and development of the Russian lexeme “PR/пиар” in contemporary Russian in comparison with its use in English and Czech. The material is collected from dictionaries and corpora of the respective languages. The author highlights a high degree of the lexeme´s assimilation in Russian (with two generations of derived lexemes), significant broadening of its semantics (esp. in fixed nominal phrases) and major pragmatization of its semantics as the result of nonverbal factors.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 55-68
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian