Malahova Y. Japanese Lexical Borrowings In The Context of International Communication.

The paper is devoted to the investigation of Japanese lexical borrowings in the context of international communication. Historical conditions of the interaction of Russian and Japanese languages and Ukrainian and Japanese languages are analyzed. A group of Japanese borrowings is singled out and its lexicographical description is given. The problem of the subject classification of Japanese borrowings in Russian and Ukrainian languages is investigated. Some peculiarities of phonetico-graphical, semantic and morphological assimilation of Japanese borrowings are analyzed and their stylistic functions are characterized. The problem of borrowings is connected with the problem of intercultural communication. National peculiarities of the participants of communication and culturally conditioned specific features of verbal and non-verbal behavior of the representatives of a certain nation are considered in the process of intercultural communication.