Globalization and its Reflection in the Nomination Processes of the Russian Language

Abstract

The aim of the article is to highlight the impact of globalization process on the contemporary Russian language, mainly on linguistic nomination system. The author focuses on two naming methods (means), such as, borrowing foreign-language lexis and phenomenon of compounding, whose popularity is clearly a result of, among others, the growing tendency to internationalize contacts between various nations all over the world. Both loans and compound words derived from a foreign word-formative models appear as a result of English dominance in the whole world. In this paper English is considered as a tool of globalization inducing quite serious disproportions in the productivity of particular naming techniques in Russian language.