RUSSIAN IDIOM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: INFLUENCE OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH HOMOMORPHIC WORD-FORMING STRUCTURES 

Schennikova Natalya Vladimirovna, Candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, head of sub-department of interpretation translation science, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), schennikova@list.ru

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Background. The paper is devoted to the description of structural and functional specificity of the Russian idiom of the English language. The idiom is considered not from the methodological and didactic perspective, but as a cross-cultural phenomenon. The actuality of the work is stipulated by the necessity of in-depth study of international communication systems which are currently acquiring greater importance on the global scale. It should reveal how the specificity of the Russian mentality is reflected and how information is encoded in the idiom that is, in fact, the hybrid of two mentalities. The paper is devoted to the influence of wordformative structures of the Russian and English languages on the specific choice of syntactic constructions in the English speech of Russian-speaking people.
Materials and methods. The analysis was done on the basis of the Russian idiom language units collected as a result of the following procedures: idiom-users’ speech observation, questioning of Russian and English informants, oral and written texts processing, experiments with idiom-users’ participation. The inductive method was applied to analyze ethnic specificity of thought formation and verbalization. The collected speech material serves as a valuable information source about idiom-users’ interlanguage that reflects acquired cognitive and speech structures of subordinative bilinguals.
Results. The paper provides the analysis of certain grammatical aspects of the Russian idiom speech specificity stipulated by homomorphism of some wordforming models. The specific features were determined through contrasting the Russian idiom speech with the authentic English speech.
Conclusions. Idiom-users make mass regular deviations of morphosyntactical character as compared with the English norm and usage. They tend to intuitively choose those English grammatical constructions that are analogous to native language constructions. Similarly, they tend to avoid those English constructions that have no analogy to native language constructions. The conclusion is drawn on the foreign speech production regularities and grammatical idioethnism of the unauthentic English speech as a result of pragmalinguistiс transfer of semantico-syntactic means of thought verbalization.

Russian idiom of the English language, speech ethnospecificity, speech norms, speech patterns, grammatical idioethnism, bilingual identity, pragmalinguistiс transfer.

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