TELESCOPING AS AN OBJECT OF INVESTIGATION IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

The paper deals with the notion of “telescoping”, topical for modern linguistics. Notwithstanding the great amount of studies devoted to the various aspects of the given phenomenon, there is no systematized approach to the problem of defining the status and semantics of telescopic units. The analysis has shown that telescopic units are used in different spheres of modern life. A word composed by means of telescoping combines several meanings, which lead to the economy of verbal means in a compressed “coded” form realizing the communicative approach to the use of the language as a means of cross-cultural communication.