NEW METAPHORS IN MODERN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article studies semantic neologisms, which appeared in the modern Russian language as a result of metaphorization. New words appear in the language to nominate new realities, and new meanings give an idea about the changes in the understanding of reality, about the evaluation of certain phenomena by native speakers. The work is performed on the material of neologic dictionaries. In the course of the study new figurative meanings of already known words are revealed, the mechanisms of metaphorization at this stage of language development were determined, and those spheres of social life, the vocabulary of which is actively involved in the processes of semantic derivation, were established. The study of semantic neologisms, as well as lexical ones, helps to establish a clear perspective of semantic changes in the language, to understand the processes that are actively occurring in the lexicon of the Russian language in the 20th-21st centuries.