The alien and (or) one’s own: modern hidden calques (based on the collocation Kak po Mne [as for me])
This article addresses the problem of identifying hidden borrowings in the Russian language of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The authors pay particular attention to expressions that convey meanings whose semiotic 'form' utilises linguistic elements pre-existing in the recipient language. The mechanism ...
Сognitive mechanisms of semantic adaptation of borrowings in Russian
This paper investigates the semantic adaptation of new borrowings in Russian, addressing a gap in research on this topic. The relevance of the study stems from the ambiguous and often negative public perception of the increasing number of borrowings in the Russian language. The study aims to classify these ...
"Athletes of faith, athletes of the stage...": linguistic and discursive analysis of the derivational family in Russian from the 18th to the early 20th centuries
... diverse contexts, and elucidates the distinctions in cultural stereotypes associated with the masculine ‘atlet’ and its feminine counterpart ‘atletka’ in relation to perceptions and evaluations of physical strength. It also highlights the role of borrowings from French and English in enriching the Russian language with nuanced shades of meaning for ‘atlet’, and characterizes the connection of this entire group of cognate words to broader social and cultural changes in 19th-century Europe and ...
