Деловой русский и лексические тенденции его развития

Abstract

The article concerns the presence in modern Russian of the Business Russian, a new and very important part of this language. It has appeared during the last decade and this is, no doubt, the most important phenomenon taking part in the Russian linguistic. Profound social transformations, taking place in Russian society, have speeded up the processes of linguistic evolution, and this has led to reorganization at all language levels. However, changes in the sphere of lexis are characterized by intensity of a special kind. Teaching Russian in our Academy means, among others, teaching Business Russian. That is a decent ability of communication competence in both oral and written Russian, a civilized commercial correspondence and skills of negotiating in Russian. The most important tendencies in the development of word stock of Business Russian are: the plurisemantization of the already existing Russian words and a very active process of borrowing words, especially from the American English. At the present moment there can be observed an upsurge in the process of borrowing words and a more extensive, active use of foreign lexis, especially in terminology. The phenomenon of linguistic restoration should also be noted: revival of words gone out of use, alterations in their evaluative colouring and stylistic properties, clearing the language of numerous clichés.