Keyword: «emotive language»

The article is dedicated to the topical problem of functioning of borrowed words in the modern Russian language. It aims at revealing peculiarities of usage of borrowed emotive interjections by modern people in their speech. By analyzing interjections, that were included into the active vocabulary of Russian native-speakers in the previous decades, the authors try to find out the reasons and the consequences of the process of borrowing of words that express the emotional attitude of a man to the surrounding reality.