Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2018-05-17
Keywords
- political neologisms,
- borrowing,
- direct borrowing,
- calque (loanword),
- half-calque
Abstract
The article examines borrowed English neologisms relating to political events in Ukraine that are used in English mass media. Special attention is paid to their formation and their semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic features. The article also focuses on their functions in mass media.