PECULIARITIES OF FOREIGN INCLUSIONS FUNCTIONING IN PRINCE HARRY’S MEMOIRS “SPARE”

Abstract

The article examines lexical borrowings and foreign-language inclusions used in Prince Harry’s memoirs “Spare”, a work that appeared in 2023 and has no official Russian translation. The study aims to distinguish between the concepts of “foreign word,” “word of foreign origin,” “lexical borrowing,” and “foreign-language inclusion,” as well as to select and classify the material, analyze its functional characteristics, and determine its role in shaping the author’s linguistic portrait. It is concluded that the linguistic units employed in the work perform the following functions: attractive-expressive, emotive, nominative, culturally oriented, comic, restrictive, intertextual, and leitmotif. The material analyzed portrays the Prince as an educated young man–experienced and knowledgeable, a world traveler who seeks to earn the respect of other nations while upholding British traditions. Future research could expand the scope of the study by analyzing additional characteristics of the author’s text, with the aim of creating a more comprehensive linguistic profile of Prince Harry.