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Репрезентация социополитической трансформации в современной лексике японского языка
Abstract. The article studies some social aspects of the impact of socio-political changes in Japan in 2010 - 2020 and their contribution to the emergence of neologisms in Japanese. The relevance of the article lies in the detailed study of 20 neologisms that emerged under the influence of the English language. Active inclusion of English words into Japanese vocabulary is associated with social processes in Japan caused by the aggressive international policy of 45th US President Donald Trump. The aim of the publication is to show the logical connections revealed during the study between the course of social processes in Japan and their international reflection under the pressure of US policy and the emergence of neologisms of foreign origin in Japanese.
Materials and methods: structural and semantic modeling based on a detailed comparison of Japanese vocabulary was used in this study. With every development phase of the country, a linguistic restructuring takes place, which, in turn, forms a unique lexico-phraseological thesaurus, which also includes symbols and metaphors. Results: we studied the neologisms of foreign origin that emerged in the last decade, which have become quite dense in Japanese vocabulary under the influence of the country's socio-political discourse due to aggressive policy of 45th US President Donald Trump. In total, about 100 such neologisms have been identified. Ten were selected and studied in detail through a sociological survey. These are lexical units not only of foreign origin, but also words of a mixed type, which are a combination of kango (words of Chinese origin), and borrowings from foreign languages both in full or abbreviated forms.
The study reflects the relationship between social processes in the country following international confrontation between Japan and the United States and the change in lexical forms, the emergence of neologisms, deeply integrated into Japanese.