Keyword: «semantics»

the article studies zoonyms in the Russian old-timers dialects of the Tyumen region in the semantic aspect. The author proposed a lexical-thematic classification of zoonyms.

The article is devoted to the problem of language changes, namely, changes at the level of vocabulary in the modern Russian language. The most striking processes in the field of vocabulary, such as semantic transformations, the formation of new phraseology, metaphorization of the language and the process of foreign language borrowing, are presented in the article. The description of the processes is accompanied by examples from periodicals.

The article deals with techniques for working with tropesduring teaching Russian as a foreign language. Stepwise introduction of figurative meanings of wordsis considered into the lexicon of a foreign student. The analysis of visual and expressive lexical means is given on the example of the text of landscape lyrics, their functional connection is determined with the idea of the poem. The influence of foreign student’s assimilation of secondary meanings of wordsis actualized on their cultural outlook.

Direct speech is considered as a way of expressing the inner world, character, way of thinking of the protagonists of journalistic materials of the 70s of the twentieth century. The functions of the initial position of direct speech in newspaper publications are determined. The individual techniques are revealed; they form ideas about the reliability of the protagonist’s image and contribute vital truthfulness to the individualization of these characters.

The relevance of the work is based on the need to study a lexical space of the modern Russian language and to describe trends that form a speech portrait of contemporary youth. Semantics and etymology of slang words are analyzed via the method of interview that has been conducted with the first-year students of Tambov State Technical University. The article aims at analyzing the key mechanisms of youth slang functioning based on students’ lexicon, revealing the sources of its replenishment, defining the most frequently used jargon words and finding out the reasons for their use by university students. The material of this study may be useful for linguists, sociologists, copywriters, psychologists and other specialists.