TY - JOUR TT - Slang Toponyms and Newsmakers’ Nicknames as a Communicative Contact and Indicator of Comic Culture in the Modern Russian Journalism AU - Vasilieva, Viktoria Vladimirovna AU - Kornilova, Natalia Anatolievna PY - 2016 DA - March JF - International Review of Management and Marketing JO - IRMM PB - İlhan ÖZTÜRK WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-4405 SP - 1 EP - 10 VL - 6 IS - 1 KW - phatic communication KW - the language of the mass media KW - the mass media political slang KW - irony KW - comic culture. N2 - The article deals with the study of phatic communication in political mass media discourse. It was made clear, that the use of slang words is one of the means to implement phatics, as such units actualize the background knowledge and act as the speech signal to form the inner communication circle. The descriptions of situations are presented, and the structures of toponyms and politicians' nicknames in modern Russia are analyzed; the semantic shifts are explained; they result in reconsideration of reality in ironic form - one of the leading in mass media comic culture. Less active ways of Russian word formation are shown; they result in appearance of extraordinary, sometimes exotic naming units. At that, the stylistic (evaluative) meaning of slang words turns out to be primary in relation to the word lexical meaning. The events and facts from the political life, causing the audience's mistrust or discontent with the authorities, become ironically reconsidered in the slang words. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/irmm/issue//355103 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/366731 ER -