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О некоторых особенностях и лингвистических проблемах процесса формирования массового русско-английского билингвизм
The article argues that the scope of English-Russian language contact studies should be extended to embrace the initial stages of English-Russian mass bilingualism formation and should involve the approaches and concepts developed within the framework of the World Englishes Paradigm. The following major features of the present-day English-Russian contact situation are addressed: “minimal” and “incipient” character of mass English-Russian bilingualism; increase in intrasentential English-Russian code-switching and code-mixing; extensive use of “emblematic”, or “symbolic” English language markers, including “tag-switches”; constraints imposed on the use of English in Russian contexts, Russianization of English, indications of Russia(n) English formation; the predominance of creative/innovative function of English embedded into Russian speech.