Arabic borrowings in modern Russian: interaction "at the intersection of cultures"

Senko Elena Viktorovna, Garieva Zarema Davidovna

Russian Russian lexemes that are actively translated into the Russian language system and demonstrate the "intersection" of the Russian national mentality with foreign linguistic and cultural values in the process of intercultural communication are described as the subject of the research. The purpose of the article is to study Arabic occurrences not only as constituents of a particular language, but as a linguistic phenomenon that "passes" through different cultures. For the first time, different vectors of the linguistic and cultural history of Arabic words functioning in the Russian language system are noted. As a result, it is established that interlanguage contact causes the actualization of those components of the word semantics that require knowledge of additional background associations. The contrastive-semantic analysis States that while preserving the denotative meaning, arabisms undergo significative transformations that depend on the conceptual world of communicants.

Keywords:linguistic contact, borrowing, Arabism, actualization, cross-cultural, contrastive-semantic.