TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE SEMANTIC ASSIMILATION OF FOREIGN WORDS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article discusses one aspect of the adaptation of foreign words in the Russian language – the question of the semantic development of English words, which manifests itself in a change in their semantic structure compared to the source language. The semantic development of English words is expressed in the narrowing, specification, or expansion of the value of the borrowed unit in the recipient language. A foreign language word, as a rule, is included in the Russian language as a unit denoting new realities or concepts; therefore, it retains only one or several original meanings. However, in the process of the further functioning of words based on the Russian language, metaphorical and metonymic figurative meanings can develop, which are not always fixed by dictionaries, but are often implemented in speech practice. In the article the researchers have attempted to establish a change of the semantic structure of words-anglicisms in the Russian language, to identify the most frequent ways of transformation of the original values of anglicisms as a result of their entering into a different linguistic system, but also to perform new meanings of foreign words and reasons for their development.