ANGLICISMS IN MODERN UZBEK DIGITAL DISCOURSE: WAYS OF ADAPTATION AND ASSIMILATION

Abstract

The rapid expansion of digital communication has turned the Uzbek language into an active recipient of English lexical material. This paper examines the ways in which anglicisms are adapted and assimilated in modern Uzbek digital discourse, distinguishing three interrelated levels of accommodation: phonetic and graphic, morphological, and semantic. It is argued that borrowing in Uzbek is not a passive transfer of foreign words but an active process in which the borrowed stem is immediately incorporated into the agglutinative system of the recipient language and frequently acquires meanings absent in the donor language. Particular attention is paid to the mediating role of Russian, to the coexistence of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and to the competition between anglicisms and their native equivalents.