The "march of time" reflected in neological "yearbooks" of the twentieth century

This paper analyzes the updated series «[What Is] New in Russian Vocabulary», a number of issues of which were prepared at the Institute for Linguistic Research of the RAS. It examines the lexical composition of yearbooks («Ezhegodniki») and their main categories of vocabulary reflecting the relationship «one’s own - someone else’s» in the Russian language of the latest period. Based on a quantitative analysis, conclusions are drawn about the continuing modern process of word derivation and about the growth and deepening of active lexical borrowing in various thematic areas. Analysis of statistical data reveals a striking feature of the dynamics of modern Russian vocabulary - the formation of composites. Significant changes in the socio-cultural situation has also led to the inclusion of Internet discourse (lexicalized Internet memes and hashtags) in yearbooks from the second decade of the twenty-first century. The final part of the article is devoted to the «addressee factor». In connection with the development of modern humanitarian academic knowledge, significant changes have also affected the parameters of the yearbooks’ potential addressee. The author suggests that in connection with the emergence of zones of legal risk in modern Russian public speech communication, specialists in the field of forensic linguistics have a special need for operative editions introducing lexical neoplasms. The main addressee is a linguistic reader in whose interests yearbook should reflect the current scientific state of lexicology and lexicography. Research reveals another special type of addressee of the yearbook: a culturologist, for whom the yearbook is the most important source of material for studying the modern sociolinguistic situation, as it offers a linguistic and extralinguistic picture of the world.