Borrowings into sports slang: contrastive analysis experience (English and Russian languages studies)

Basic types of borrowings into the English and Russian sports slang are considered. The author conducts the contrastive analysis of the lexical material in both genetic and structural aspects. The conclusion includes the results revealing general and specific features of the slangs in question. The dependence of the borrowed lexical unit character on the sociocultural, geographical, and historical factors is established.