On the Old and New Names of Exotic Fruits

The names of exotic plants and their fruits - a small but very interesting lexical category. In the contemporary explanatory dictionaries, it is not uncovered completely and systematically: obviously obsolete words (pomeranus, sycómorus) have no contemporary and common interpretations (lime, passion fruit), that is explained by extralinguistic reasons. The rapid change in life (for example, such areas as trade, travel, electronic communication) brings to life the need to name the objects of everyday reality. Although there are a lot of these names in the dictionaries of foreign words, encyclopedias and reference books. Their spelling is codified by an orthographic dictionary. Native speakers are not always aware of this fact and use different means, including repeated and new borrowings from popular sources or real communication, often multilingual (e.g. for one plant: strastocvet, passiflora, grenadilla, marakuiya, passionfruit).The gap between scientific discourse (both botanical and linguistic) and everyday communication leads to the appearance of parallel versions of the names, including erroneous (mangostan / mangustan / mangosteen), that are replicated by mass media, social networks etc., and lead to new mistakes.

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explanatory dictionary, lexicography, plant names

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24.09.2019

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24.09.2019

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GOST	Kuleva A. On the Old and New Names of Exotic Fruits // Russkaya Rech’ – 2019. – Issue 4 C. 7-20 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170005354-8-1-en (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005354-8
MLA	Kuleva, Anna S "On the Old and New Names of Exotic Fruits." Russkaya Rech’ 4 (2019):7-20. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005354-8
APA	Kuleva A. (2019). On the Old and New Names of Exotic Fruits. Russkaya Rech’ (4), pp.7-20 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005354-8

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