RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics (Dec 2018)

COMPUTER AND NETWORK WORD IN THE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE AND CHINESE-LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE INTERNET SPACE

  • Vladimir N Denisenko,
  • Zhang Ke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2018-9-4-911-925
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 911 – 925

Abstract

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This article is devoted to the topic of analysis of borrowed vocabulary in Russian and Chinese languages that is relevant in modern linguistics and language processes based on the lexicon of Internet communication in the field of computer and network technologies. The article provides a comparative analysis of the ways of borrowing foreign language lexical units in the field of information and communication technologies in the Russian and Chinese languages. The authors identify such types of borrowings as phonetic and semantic (word-formation and combination of tracing paper; etymological tracing, semantic tracing paper) in Russian and phonetic and semantic borrowing in Chinese, as well as graphical borrowed computer and network terms used in Russian and Chinese-language forums, and borrowing of English abbreviation terms in Russian and Chinese. Separately considered professional and slang vocabulary in the field of information and communication technologies, used in the Russian-speaking and Chinese-speaking forums. The main attention is paid to the peculiarities of their formation and functioning in the Russianspeaking and Chinese-speaking communicative space of the Internet.

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