Socio-political vocabulary of borrowed origin in the language of journalism of the second half of the 19th century: functional and stylistic aspect

The article presents the results of a study aimed at examining the dynamics of changes in the semantic structure of selected borrowed words related to socio-political vocabulary; it identifies the features of their functioning in journalistic contexts of the second half of the 19^th century and compares the observations with the lexicographic representation in the 19^th century dictionaries. Particular attention is paid to the contexts in which there is determinologization of socio-political vocabulary, the development of these units’ figurative meaning or shades of meaning; it presents contexts, including borrowed words relating to other thematic groups which being a part of phraseological unit can be attributed to the socio-political vocabulary; it also shows the use of words with the meaning which is unusual compared with 19^th century dictionaries. Conclusions are drawn that the journalistic texts of the 19th century, especially the second half of it, are a rich source for replenishment of lexicographical description of borrowings.