Studies On English Loan Words In Russian From The English-Russian Language Contact View

The development of languages is affected by the corresponding changes of the society. The Russian society has witnessed enormous changes in recent years, promoting the development of Russian. Blossoms in lexicons, especially loaded words in Russian, have become the most sensitive part to undergo changes. With its international position getting increased, English has gained great popularities throughout the world. Meanwhile, English has become the sources for new lexicons in many foreign languages, among which Russian has been affected much. Since the language contact began around the16th century, Russian has experienced several climaxes of English loaded words and the fields range greatly.The loaded words perform as marks of Russian social changes, which not only define the upcoming creations and phenomena as well as new concepts, but also make remarkable contributions to enrich Russian vocabularies.The present thesis conducts analysis and research on the English loanwords in Russian, based on the language contact theory. It not only reviews on the characteristics of English loanwords in different historical periods as well as in different applied fields, but also analyzes the internal factors bringing forth the development of loanwords from the perspective of languages. It is necessary to connect the English-Russian language contact, mixtures of codes, language interferences and other social language phenomena with the language loaded process.Three stages has been clarified for the loaded process of English, namely, the penetration stage, the assimilation stage as well as the stable stage. It can be concluded that, during the contract stage, English words perform in form of pure English words, English-Russian compound words and English description words in Russian, some of which have survived and become the English loaded words during the process of Russian social selections. After English words were introduced into Russian, they are demanded to fit the Russian grammatical rules. However, the loaded words have experienced certain variations in phonetic spellings, grammars and semantics with the interference from Russian languages as well as from the disparities between English and Russian, some of which have been acknowledged and collected by the Russian dictionary and finally have become part of Russian lexicons. Finally, combined with previous Russian loanwords history, the current context of economic globalization of the Anglo-Russian language contact and the Russian people worship the United States and Western culture, social psychology, from English to international status and the current Russian English loanwords situation analysis of the Russian and English loanwords development in the future.Besides, though Russian scholars stand for different attitudes towards loaded words, large amounts of English lexicons and English expressions still have kept their original forms when brought into Russian. English loaded words are accurate in semantic expressions and are convenient for communications, which endow English with advantages to become loaded words in Russian.