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Mutual enrichment of arts and cultures should be considered as a fundamental rule of existence of history. Opponents or supporters of “décadisme”, with some minor exceptions, do not connect this movement with a concept of the civilization decline. Decadents considered modern language to be poor and insufficient for expressing the feelings they were experiencing. Therefore, poetic resources were consciously updated to express the new attitude. They created such original words as stagnance (from stagnant ), sombreur (from sombre ), etc. J. Plowert even composed “Small glossary to understand decadent and symbolist authors” (1888) to make decadent poetry comprehensible to readers. Decadents’ style has caused a resonance in public consciousness at all levels of art. In this article we will try to prove that the era of the late 19th century can be characterized as the time of spiritual renewal and cultural rise not only in poetry, but also in music and theater. more...

The article is devoted to the neologisms, which are used in advertising texts, as well as their focus on different target audience of Russian and French linguistic community.

The article describes the sources of formation of lexical items belonging to the «Family» lexico-semantic field in the French language of sub-Saharan Africa.

The article investigates the means to render borrowed neologisms in mass media and advertizing/ the introducing of new graphic methods to adapt new lexical units in the Russian language.

This paper looks at such complex areas in English lexicology as lexical differences between spoken English among native speakers and that of learners of English, core lexis for learners to be mastered and: more specifically, neologisms, words in vogue and colloquialisms. more...

The given article focuses on the problem of enriching Russian socio-political vocabulary of the contemporary period by the word-building innovations. The most active at present methods of socio-political words' building are examined, sufficiently productive word-building elements are classified and their meaning is analysed in the work. Special attention is given to the description of the modern political abbreviation phenomenon; the specific structural peculiarities and the functional purpose of new abbreviations are defined. more...