English Loans in Contemporary Russian

Download or read book English Loans in Contemporary Russian written by Yuliya Baldwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Loans in Contemporary Russian presents over 2,000 English borrowings in the Russian lexicon, providing a unique account of changes in the language and culture. The entries in this practical Russian-English dictionary cover a wide range of well-established loanwords to more recent neologisms. They address an increasingly relevant part of the contemporary Russian lexicon, particularly in the language of business, politics, mass media, computer, medicine, and other professional areas. The dictionary reflects how the language is responding to new patterns of life and will be of interest to Russian language learners and linguists.