БЛОГЕР ИЛИ БЛОГЕРША: РУССКИЕ ФЕМИНИТИВЫ С ФОРМАНТОМ -ш(а) В СОВРЕМЕННОМ МЕДИАПРОСТРАНСТВЕ
BLOGER OR BLOGERSHA: RUSSIAN FEMINITIVES WITH THE SUFFIX -SH(A) IN THE MODERN MEDIA SPACE

Summary/Abstract: Personal feminine nouns with the suffix -sh(a) functioning in the modern Russian language were analyzed. The word-formation model with the suffix -sh(a) is one of the means of expression the word formation category of femininity, singled out on the basis of a common derivational value ‘a female, belonging to the category of persons, called the motivating noun’. The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing importance of female nominations as an object of linguistic research, as well as their activity in the modern Russian media space. The language material for our research includes 166 lexemes, all selected by the method of continuous sampling from authoritative explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language and the Russian speaking media space. The analysis of the functioning of personal feminine nouns in the language was carried out on the basis of the material collected using the RNC (Russian National Corpus), media data, and personal blogs on the Internet. The study was performed to describe the features of the formation and functioning of derived nominations of females in modern Russian. The study was based on: a) an integrated approach to the analysis of derived units; b) analysis of the derivational structure and motivational relationships; c) determination of the specifics of the functioning of the studied units in speech.

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