LEXICAL BORROWINGS OF THE "FASHION" SPHERE IN MODERN FRENCH

Abstract

Тhe article is devoted to the consideration of the issues of lexical borrowings of the sphere of "fashion" in the modern French language. The author describes the ways and mechanisms of borrowings in the French language, conducts a semantic classifi cation of lexical borrowings of the "fashion" sphere based on printed media data taken from French fashion magazines of recent years. The paper analyzes the process of lexical borrowings from various languages at the present stage of the development of the French language, and also shows the process of transition of elements of one language into another. The following methods and techniques of linguistic analysis were used in the course of the study: descriptive method, method of analogy, method of classifi cation and formation of thematic groups of lexical borrowings, method of quantitative calculation of the data obtained. The main types of borrowed vocabulary in the French language are highlighted: denotative borrowings, connotative borrowings, double borrowings, loan translations, "wandering borrowings". The study also revealed that borrowings differ by the type of terms: terms-words and terms-phrases. Empirical material has shown the productivity of the formation of fashionable terms by word composition and affi xal production. The practical signifi cance of the work lies inthe possibility of using the obtained research results in the framework of theoretical and practical courses in lexicology, linguoculturology, theory and practice of translation in higher educational institutions in the areas of training "Linguistics", "Philology" for students studying French as a fi rst or second foreign language. The scientifi c novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the fi rst time an attempt has been made to systematize an extensive layer of borrowed vocabulary related to the fi eld of "Fashion" according to the semantic principle.