title: Slang Toponyms and Newsmakers’ Nicknames as a Communicative Contact and Indicator of Comic Culture in the Modern Russian Journalism
abstract: 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&amp;#039; nicknames in modern Russia are analyzed; the semantic shifts are explained; they result in reconsi
journal: DergiPark (Istanbul University)