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Language and Text
2022. Vol. 9, no. 2, 91–100
https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2022090210
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

Runglish in Action: Anglicisms in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon

 
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This paper examines the functioning of some new Anglicisms in the bilingual mental lexicon which consists of Russian as L1 and English as L2, by means of the association experiment. English-based neologisms of today have a number of interesting features: they exist in abundance, they are used extensively and ubiquitously, many of these words are not subject to a single spelling standard. The (bilingual) mental lexicon is key to exploring the semantic structures used by individuals to form and express thoughts, as well as to study their lexical representations. Based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of the free and the controlled association tests, the article concludes that the well-developed bilingual identity, on the one hand, contributes to putting L2 vocabulary knowledge into practice; on the other hand, it prevents L2 lexemes from becoming part of the bilingual’s L1. Thus, it is possible to assume that the higher the level of English the less likely it is that certain English words will turn into Anglicisms. Besides, the bilinguals' use of Anglicisms is characterized by a shift in the meaning of the L1 lexemes towards the corresponding English words.

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Keywords: mental lexicon, Anglicisms, association method, bilingualism

Journal rubric: Linguodidactics and Innovations.Psychological Basis of Learning Languages and Cultures.

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2022090210

Received 17.06.2022

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For citation: Bovshik, A.S., Gaivoronskaya, S.O. (2022). Runglish in Action: Anglicisms in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon. Language and Text, 9(2), 91–100. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2022090210

© Bovshik A.S., Gaivoronskaya S.O., 2022

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Aleksandr S. Bovshik, Candidate of Science (Philology), Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (First Cossack University), Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9482-5449, e-mail: alex.bovshik.msupe@gmail.com

Svetlana O. Gaivoronskaya, PhD student, Department of Linguodidactics and Intercultural Communication, Institute «Foreign Languages, Modern Communications and Management», Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (MSUPE), Lecturer, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2658-7826, e-mail: gaivoronskaya.light@gmail.com

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