Deonyms with an onomastic component in the Russian political media discourse

Abstract

The paper explores new lexical units of the Russian political media discourse that have anthroponyms in their composition. Particular attention is paid to new productive word-building models. So, in recent years in the Russian media language words with the English suffix -ing, formed on the basis of their own names, has been widely spread. As a rule, the bases for such lexemes are the names of politicians. Most of the deonyms of this group have the semantics of "meeting in support of a specific politician" or a certain action personified by a political figure. Composites formed according to models borrowed from the English language are also explored. The wide dissemination of deonyms in the Russian media language testifies to the trend towards personification of politics, the propensity to language game, the desire to increase the expressiveness of the journalistic text.

Keywords

• deonym
• anthroponym
• political media discourse
• word-formation model
• neologism