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CHINESE AND RUSSIAN PRECEDENT NAMES IN ENGLISH

CHINESE AND RUSSIAN PRECEDENT NAMES IN ENGLISH


Author:  N.G. Yuzefovich, K.V. Bordilovsky

Affiliation:  Far Eastern State University for the Humanities

Abstract
Names of Chinese and Russian political figures, book titles, etc. used in English are described as foreign linguoculture “precedent names”. In a new context their connotations might change, one of the reasons of which is English conceptual world, different from the world of borrowed names.

Keywords:  precedent name, linguoculture, connotation

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