Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология (Jul 2023)
Occasional words in the modern Russian language of the turn of the centuries: semantic and word-formation aspect
Abstract
The subject of the study is occasional words formed at the end of the XX beginning of the XXI centuries. The purpose of the article is a various characteristics of occasional words in the Russian language of the turn of the centuries. Methods of continuous sampling, observation, description, word-formation, classification and functional-semantic analysis were used in the course of the study; quantitative methodology was applied to determine the ratio of grammatical categories of occasional words and the spheres of their functioning. Excerpts from subcorpuses of the National Corpus of the Russian Language provided the main language material. The analysis allowed to define styles where occasional words are most commonly encountered and to distinguish between fiction and journalistic occasional words. The result of the study identified the main problematic issues related to occasional words (their features, reasons of occurrence, a variety of methods classifications of occasional words formation, the differentiation of potential words and occasional words, differences between literary and newspaper occasional words, etc.). The main methods of formation of occasional words, their grammatical categories in quantitative ratio have been described based on the language material analysis; the main spheres of their functioning are identified; the types of dictionaries of occasional words are represented. The study found that active formation of occasional words in the modern Russian language, characterized by intensive expression, evaluativity, creativity in the process of speech tends to expressiveness. The thorough analysis of occasional words suggests future prospects of their existence in the modern Russian language.
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