Виндоуз or Windows? Cyrillic and Latin scripting for trademark names (in contemporary Russian fiction texts) Cover Image

Виндоуз или Windows? Кириллица и латиница в названиях торговых марок (на материале современных русских художественных текстов)
Виндоуз or Windows? Cyrillic and Latin scripting for trademark names (in contemporary Russian fiction texts)

Author(s): Klaudia Prokopczuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: verbal trademarks; modern Russian literature; script mixing

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the usage principles of Cyrillic and Latin scripting for foreign-lan-guage commercial names in Russian fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These include the following factors: the existing tradition concerning the employment of foreign language words in Russian texts; the possibility of employing different fonts as means of indirect valuation and of indication that the speech subject belongs to a certain social group, as well as stylistic and morphologic factors related to a possibility (or impossibility) for a trade mark to obtain Russian case endings; the iconic function of a font; a language game.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: XXI
  • Page Range: 19-29
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian