LEXICAL WAYS OF NAMING A PERSONAL COMPUTER IN MODERN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article discusses methods of naming personal computers, the material is the result of the survey, as well as the data of the RNC (Russian National Corpus). The formation of the vocabulary of this sphere is active and is associated with such linguistic phenomena as the borrowing of anglicisms, their adaptation (including graphic), word formation derivation, etc. In addition, an important question is how different types of personal computers are conceptualized in the modern Russian language. The article notes that when naming computer types, paradigmatic connections can be broken, and hypo-hyperonymy and meronymy are involved in this process. All this leads to the fact that despite the active borrowing of anglicisms, the lexical methods of naming personal computers have national specifics, which is clearly manifested in comparison with the data of other languages (the article touches on the specifics of Chinese nominations in this area). In conclusion, it is concluded that there is no clear denotative distinction between the types of personal computers. The word also reveals adaptive and word forming mechanisms for the formation of nominations in this area.