Foreign Language Terminological Vocabulary of Information Technologies in Ukrainian Online Publications

Abstract

The article analyzes the latest borrowed vocabulary in the language of leading Ukrainian online
publications, in particular thematic groups of terminological vocabulary of information technologies
of English origin. The article outlines that Internet communications play an important role in the
popularization of foreign words, which is the reason why scientific research is devoted to the study

of foreign lexemes in the language of online newspapers, as these types of media are more common
than their printed analogues. The article proves that the characteristics of borrowings in the texts of
modern Ukrainian mass media are determined by lexical differentiation, as a huge array of foreign
language vocabulary penetrates into the Ukrainian language and their topics are extremely diverse.
The article considers the most common at the present stage of the study thematic groups
of terminological foreign language vocabulary, recorded in the texts of popular online newspapers:
names of devices; names of programs and network tools and technologies; tokens in the field of social
networks; names of units of account on the Internet; names of various types of illegal activities and
threats on the Internet and fraud committed by other technical means. It is proved that the journalistic
style of the modern Ukrainian language has experienced significant transformations over the last
decade. The availability of online media to a wide range of readers (especially young people) has
caused an expansion of the thematic range of mass media texts, and the subject of borrowed lexemes
has expanded accordingly. The examples recorded in the texts of online publications prove that
English is now associated not only with the scientific field, but with other spheres of life, including
the field of information technology.
The authors conclude that the technologicalization of society has affected the language - the
share of borrowed terminological units is one of the largest. The leader among foreign language
terminological vocabulary in online publications is a thematic group of tokens to denote types
of illegal activities on the Internet. The group of names of network programs and technologies is
somewhat quantitatively inferior to this group of borrowings. Then we quantify thematic groups of
English-language symbols of units of account on the Internet, tokens of social networks and device
names.