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О СЛОВЕ ФЕЙК И О ТОМ, ЧТО ЗА НИМ СТОИТ
ON WORD “FAKE” AND WHAT IS BEHIND IT

Author(s): Kazimierz Luciński
Subject(s): Sociology, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: paradigmatic relations; social stratum; sense correlate; socio-cultural peculiarities;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on a loanword borrowed from the English language “fake” that became very popular in the Russian soil. The author shows the derivational abilities of a word leading to the formation of new words that belong to the other parts of speech: a verb “фейковать”, an adjective “фейковый”, a noun “фейковость”. Every part of speech is analysed on the basis of paradigmatic relations, in which the word is involved, along with its sociolinguistic characteristics such as the field of use and social strata to which the native speakers belong. The author does not limit himself to an ordinary linguistic description of this loanword and its sense-correlates; instead the author tries to present socio-cultural peculiarities of reality that made possible a wide use of this loanword borrowed from the English language.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 28(33)
  • Page Range: 89-98
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian
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