Языковая ситуация в Беларуси и её отражение в современном газетном тексте
Language situation in Belarus and its reflection in the present-day newspaper text

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses peculiarities of Belarusian language insertion usage in texts of present daynewspapers of Belarus published in Russian as well as bilingual ones. Facts of conscious insertionof alien (Belarusian language) elements into texts written in Russian are investigated on the basisof the data registered by the author in the middle of the 90-ies of the ХХth century – the time whenin the language of the newspapers in Belarus a specific sociocultural aggregation of Russian andBelarusian language elements started to be formed. In the course of the research it has been foundthat in the present-day newspaper text this process a) has kept its major semantico-stylistic properties(the Belarusian word in the Russian text is still being used as means of evaluation, irony, as an appealto non-textual information, as a signal of the communicative situation “agreement – disagreement”,as an indication of Belarusian socio- or ethnocultural space); b) has acquired new features: thenumber of insertions of the phrasal and superphrasal levels has significantly grown (journalistsuse Belarusian texts as an element of intertextual interaction which participates in the formationof intertextuality of modern Belarusian publicistic writing); trasyanka which is a spontaneouslyrussified variant of the Belarusian language started to be introduced into newspaper texts writtenin Russian; text positions used for the actualization of the Belarusian word have changed (it beganto be actively used in headlines and subheadings, in creolized texts); the transformation of socialconditions has brought about the transformation of the newspaper senses topical for the newspapertext, as a result the number of lexemes and word combinations thematically related to the designationof concepts and phenomena of socio-political character has sharply decreased among Belarusianlanguage insertions.

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