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THE FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF CONTEMPORARY LOANWORDS IN THE SPEECH OF A GROUP-WIDE LANGUAGE PERSONALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION STUDENT // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 184-188

The work is devoted to one of the central notions of anthropological linguistics – group-wide language personality. The article considers one of the particular features of contemporary loanwords – vocabulary borrowed from foreign languages which entered the Russian language in XX–XXI centuries, in the speech of a group-wide language personality of higher education institution student of Tomsk. Central attention is focused on the realization of a group of nominative functions by foreign novations in student discourse. The youth newspapers, Internet websites of social communities, colloquial speech of students was chosen as the material for investigation. Multifunctionality of contemporary loanwords in student newspaper and Internet discourse is revealed – the nominative function is basic and is realized in specific linguistic functions. For foreign novations the most typical functions are information and determinative, synonymically differential, terminological and compressive. The role of loanwords in the formation of a language personality of a student: contemporary loanwords expand the terminological thesaurus of a future specialist, it is a cognition means in information technologies and household appliances, in the sphere of various interests of students.

Keywords: borrowings, functioning, higher school student’s group linguistic identity, Internet-discourse

THE PRAGMATIC STATUS OF THE NEWEST BORROWINGS IN THE STUDENT DISCOURSE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 193-197

The work is accomplished in the framework of anthropological paradigm of modern linguistics, at the intersection of current trends of language science: functional linguistics, linguistic personology, contactology, neology, etc. The article is devoted to the functioning of contemporary loanwords in student speech, namely to the analysis of pragmatic functions of foreign novations in student discourse. Contemporary loanwords is the vocabulary borrowed from foreign languages, both assimilated and non-assimilated, which entered the Russian language beginning with 1990s. The youth newspapers, Internet websites of social communities, colloquial speech of students was chosen as the material for investigation. The foreign novations not included into the regular Russian language dictionaries are analysed. The particular features for foreign neologisms to realize the specific linguistic pragmatic functions are revealed. The functions are expressive (emotive and attractive), characterological, contact-setting, euphemistic, etc. Multifunctionality of contemporary loanwords as a particular feature of a speech portrait of higher education institution student is proved. Summing up the observations over the functional potential of contemporary loanwords in student discourse of the XXI century, the functional syncretism can be traced.

Keywords: foreign lexis, newest borrowings, neologism, functionality, pragmatic functions, speech portrait