ABOUT SOME OF THE REASONS OF ETHNOPHAULISMS USE IN MODERN ENGLISH CROSS-CULTURAL SPACE

Abstract

The author considers one of the actual problems of cross-cultural communication - the use of ethnophaulisms in modern informational space of English-speaking countries and describes such reasons of ethnic nicknames use as comic effect creation, tradition honoring and cultural ignorance by the example of concrete situations.

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• Published: July 7, 2011.

Keywords

• этнофолизм
• этническое прозвище
• кросс-культурное пространство
• язык этнических конфликтов
• стереотип
• фольклор
• культурное невежество
• ethnophaulism
• ethnic nickname
• cross-cultural space
• language of ethnic conflicts
• stereotype
• folklore
• cultural ignorance

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