MEDIASPACE AS A SPECIAL SPHERE OF PRODUCTION AN EXTRA-SYSTEMIC VOCABULARY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN FEMINITIVES WITH SUFFIXES -ЕСС(А), -ИС(А))

Abstract

The article discusses the derivative names of women with the suffixes -есс(a), -ис(a), functioning in the modern Russian-language media space. The media space, understood by us as a sphere of global communication created by electronic means, has become a new medium for the functioning of the Russian language. The relevance of the study is determined by the debatability in modern society of the problem of creating and using special feminine words-signs - feminitives. The language material is 41 tokens with these suffixes. The analysis of the functioning of the names of female persons in the language was carried out on the basis of material collected using the National Corpus of the Russian Language and Media Data. The derived nominal representations of female persons by professional or other affiliation form a modification category of femininity, distinguished on the basis of a generalized derivational meaning of ‘a female person belonging to the category of persons denoted by a motivating noun’. The article lists the features of Internet communication in a linguistic aspect, defines the lexical and semantic composition of the names of female persons with the suffixes -есс(a), -ис(a), and also presents a stylistic characteristic of these language units. Based on the results of the study, it was made about the favorableness of the media space for the generation of unsuccessful vocabulary, which includes feminists-neologisms ending in -есс(a), - ис(a).