Stepanov I. Russian Urban Speech in the Multilingvocultural Space of Odessa

Object: multilevel units that are grouped around semantic invariants such as дати життя кому (to give birth to Object: Russian urban speech of Odessa. Objective: to single out and to systematize lingual and extralingual peculiarities of the Russian urban speech of Odessa as a functional type of the Russian language which has formed itself under the conditions of this multilingual and cultural city. Methods: a complex method including empirical observations, descriptive and historical-and-descriptive, statistic and social analyses, experimental, instrumental and other specific technologies. Scientific novelty: for the first time in the Russian Philology there were defined and characterized trends and consequences of language interaction in the history of development of a multilingual and cultural city. Practical value: a possibility of appliances in sociolinguistics, Russian literary language history, Modern Russian language studies, crosscultural communication; in the work of institutions of local governing, educational institutions and mass media.