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English Names of Occupations in Modern Russian Language
English Names of Occupations in Modern Russian Language

Author(s): Anna Romanik
Subject(s): Media studies, Lexis, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Anglicism; mass media; names of professions; nomination; sociolinguistics;

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper deals with names of occupations and specializations borrowed from English into modern Russian language. Analysed material was selected from vacancy announcement on Russian web-sides. The main purpose of the article was to describe reasons of dynamic process of lexical borrowing, to indicate lexical-semantic group dominated by searched loanwords and to identify the level of their assimilation. The research has shown that the largest number of English names of professions is observed in economy, marketing, information technology, show business, public service, etc. New loanwords come into Russian mainly under the influence of linguistic fashion and result from the need to define a new referent.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 249-259
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish