Russian language in the mass media of Lithuania: To the problem of variability

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the language of the Russian diaspora in Lithuania, which distinguish it from the language of the metropolis, on the basis of the material of media texts. The main trends in the evolution of new means of expression over the past decades and the regulatory impact of the mass media are revealed. The role of online publications in the output of lexical neologisms outside of Lithuania is also considered. The differences in the Russian language of Lithuania are most noticeable at the lexical and semantic level, but the impact of the state language of the titular nation also generates graphic, spelling and grammatical features. The article touches upon the problems of codification of the local norm. Observation of the national variants of the Russian language, emerging in territories outside Russia, will help to get an idea of the general picture of the existence of the Russian language in the world, to see similar and different in the specific of its foreign variants.