ENGLISH BORROWINGS IN THE NEWSPAPER POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF RUSSIA: HOW THEY HELP TO TEACH LANGUAGE?

Abstract

In the modern world, newspaper discourse remains one of the priority sources of information, as well as an indicator of many processes taking place in society itself. This also includes linguistic processes, as it reflects the state of the language. The analysis of the newspaper discourse is one of the ways to identify how many borrowings from other languages of the world penetrate into a particular language, how quickly they adapt, in what form they are presented in it, how effective language protection programmes work and what difficulties may arise while teaching and/or studying a particular language. The language pair for our study has been Russian and English. It means that there were observed English borrowings in the Russian language. Newspaper political discourse has been chosen for the study, since politics is one of the spheres of society's life, which lexical composition is actively replenished with borrowings from the English language. A lot of terms, phenomena and processes are usually presented through the English vocabulary. The data for the study has been based on articles from two Russian newspapers – “Izvestia” and “Argumenty i Fakty”. In general, there were analysed 200 articles and titles for them (100 articles for each newspaper). In the course of the study, all the found examples containing borrowings from the English language have been analysed and divided into groups. According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that the use of English-language borrowings in the Russian newspaper political discourse is based on a number of objective reasons.