НОВЫЕ И АКТУАЛИЗИРОВАННЫЕ СЛОВА С КОМПОНЕНТОМ ВОЙНА В СОВРЕМЕННОМ МЕДИАДИСКУРСЕ

Abstract. Since the late 1990s, a number of new and actualized words and stable word combinations with the word war in their structure have appeared in Russian speaking mass media due to significant changes in the theory and practice of modern warfare and largely under the influence of the English language (proxy-war / proxy-war, quasi war, cyber-war, insurgency-war / para-war, semi-war, post-war; hybrid warfare, network warfare, mental warfare, indirect warfare, negotiated warfare, alien warfare, etc., war by agreement, war by other hands, etc.), as a result of which its basic meaning: 'armed struggle between states, nations or social classes; military actions' has undergone some expansion. This paper details the new English loanword proxy war, as well as a few other new loanwords, new derivatives of the word war and actualized lexemes of the given structure. The novelty of the undertaken research lies in the presentation of topical lexemes in media discourse, which have the word war in their composition and are related to the theme of modern interstate conflicts and have no fixation in dictionaries. Its relevance is determined by the high demand for these nominations in Russian-language mass media and the lack of their systematic linguistic description. The aim of this paper is to identify the range of words relevant to Russian language political and media discourse of the first twenty years of the 21st century that have the noun war in their structure, to determine the mechanism of their appearance in the Russian language, to characterize their semantic and stylistic features. It is concluded that Anglo-borrowing and actualization play a significant role in this process. Actualized in the modern extra-linguistic and linguistic context, lexemes with evaluative prefixes (under-, half-, and initial components quasi..., half...) are members of actual word-formation series, the new anglicism proxy-war is the semantic center of this group and indirectly, through the initial component proxy-.... in the meaning of ”relating to proxy-war, participating in its conduct”, influences the expansion of the group of lexicon related to the new modern stage of interstate conflicts. Some words have semantic doublets in the form of compound names, as well as semantically converge with the lexicon outside this group. Changes in the semantics of the word war occur due to the loss of some features (mandatory armed clash, absence of the initiator of the conflict in the territory of the enemy, since the goal is not so much the extermination of the enemy as his submission to his influence, etc.) and the appearance of new ones (use of new technical means, techniques, etc. of pressure on the enemy). The research material was extracted from the database of Integrum information agency, Google and Yandex resources. The research employed classification, descriptive, comparative methods, and component analysis.