LOANWORDS IN SHORT PROSE BY ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITERS OF INDIAN AND AFRICAN DESCENT: NUCLEUS VERSUS PERIPHERY

Abstract

An axiom within World Englishes Paradigm stipulates that regional variants of English possess distinctive features on each and every language level. The peculiar features of the lexical level in any New English are moderately manifested and comprise the following: culturally-loaded loanwords, hybrid neologisms, semantic shifts in the meaning of the already existing English words, irregular collocations with the already existing words as the kernel words. The goal of the undertaken research is to reveal how the corpus of loanwords in the Inner Circle English can be classified into the nuclear stratum and the peripheric stratum. The topicality of the research is determined by the direct correlation between the skyrocketing number of translingual authors and the current processes of dispatriation, reverse colonization, immigration, etc. The scientific novelty reveals itself in insufficient academic writing (in Russian) on translinguality, World Englishes, culturally-loaded loanwords. The analysis of 386 loanwords elicited from 42 short stories written in English by authors of Indian, Nigerian, Kenyan and Ghanaian descent resulted in highlighting the distinctive features of the borrowed nucleus: high recurrence, extensive collocability, polysemy, codified phonetical/orphographical/grammatical features.