THE IMAGE OF POST-SOVIET RUSSIA AS MIRRORED BY THE NICKNAMES
More than 100 nicknames of famous Russian politicians and officials are analyzed in the aspect of language game theory. The motives of language play wide spread in the up-to-date Russian informal language are revealed.
Keywords: сommunicative space, carnivalization of language, language play, nicknames
Issue: 6, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: Topical Problems of Russian Philology
Pages: 25 — 28
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