Abstract: The article deals with the problem of the existence of the Russian language at the end of the 20th century against the background of socio-cultural and political changes in society. The author identifies three main lexical cycles in the formation of the communicative portrait of the epoch. The change in the appearance of the language is associated with the processes that have received the greatest development in the 20th century: coding and codification; recoding - decodification - new codification, etc. The increased role of the administrative...
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