LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC GROUP “CITY” IN the MODERN RUSSIAN MASS MEDIA

Abstract

The article deals with the use of words related to the lexical-semantic group “city” in the mass media language. The authors justify the idea that in the modern Russian language, the composition of this group is expanded and replenished due to the updating of obsolete words and inflow of borrowings. The emergence of new city namings is also associated with the emergence of new types of large localities in the modern world. The study showed that in journalistic texts words with the meaning “city” can acquire different shades of meaning, which allow to express the author’s assessment of the described events. The image of the city plays special role in advertising. The patterns of lexemes functioning in a certain lexical-semantic group in mass media that are revealed in the article can serve as a basis for further research in this field.