Changes in English loanwords in Uzbek mass media are not only a question of “more borrowings.” They are changes in channel (from Russian-mediated forms to direct English-oriented intake), form (parallel Latin/Cyrillic spellings and unstable transliteration), and integration (Uzbek affixation, hybrid formations, and meaning shifts). I treat mass media broadly – online news, platform-linked journalism, and public-facing commentary – because newsroom language now circulates inside the same digital ecosystems that generate new lexemes. Recent Uzbek scholarship using corpus-based data from social media, news websites, and forums shows rapid diffusion of English-origin items and their adaptation through phonological and morphological mechanisms (e.g., “smartfon”, “kompyuterlashtirish”). At the same time, public debate in Uzbekistan highlights the lack of consensus on foreign-word orthography and the costs of relying on intermediary-language spellings. The article argues that the most visible “change” today is the move from borrowing-as-import to borrowing-as-productive material for Uzbek word-formation and media pragmatics.
| Mualliflar | Редактор, Главный, Dalieva , Madina Khabibullaevna |
|---|---|
| Jurnal | Lingvospektr |
| Nashr sanasi | 2026-03-06 |
| Jild | 2 |
| Son | 1 |
| Betlar | 17-21 |
| Til | Ingliz |
English loanwords, Uzbek mass media, lexical borrowing, orthography, transliteration, Latin script, Cyrillic script, morphological adaptation, semantic extension, digital discourse, corpus approach
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