The term “iskusstvennyi intellekt” in Russian-language texts: functioning, reception, variants
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article considers the specifics of the functioning of the terminological phrase iskusstvennyi intellekt (artifical intellegence) in microdiachrony based on the material of Russian-language texts. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the use of the term and its variants in modern speech. Research material: The National Corpus of the Russian Language, the electronic media database “Integrum”, scientific discourse. The research methodology includes the analysis of the semantics and combinatorics of the term; stylistic analysis; discursive analysis. The author concludes that the term is polysemic: its semantic structure includes procedural, substantive, epistemological, and existential meanings that manifest themselves differently in different discourses. Since the 1970s the term goes the way from the futurologem denoting a fictional concept to technicism-reality . The change in the compatibility of the term is noticeable by the gradual reduction of verbal constructions with the meaning of possessiveness “ X obladaet/nadelen iskusstvennym intellektom ” associated with the anthropomorphic nature of the inner form of the term, and an increase in the number of constructions “ X osnastili <snabdili, oborudovali> iskusstvennym intellektom ”, which is typical for the use of technicism in characterizing a technical device. The dynamics of changes in the use of this term is due to the rapid development of the relevant technology and widespread introduction of its achievements into everyday life. It realizes in an increase in the frequency of the term in the media; its determinologization; the actualization of more compact substitutes for the term, primarily II , and the activity of non-literary variants with different connotations in the media texts ( Iishka , IskIn , etc.).
Source: Communication Studies
Author: Elena V. Marinova
Institution: Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204911204