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distance learning, mass media texts, linguistic view of the world, linguoculturological analysis.

This article is devoted to the linguoculturological analysis of the naming units of the distance learning process in Russian and English mass media texts. It is aimed at identifying universal and specific features of the naming units of the given fragment of the linguistic view of the world of Russian and English speakers. The COVID-19 pandemic shocked all the spheres of society, including education. Mass media actively covered the problems of education, distance learning in particular, using an extensive repertoire of naming units for this phenomenon. The analysis of mass media texts (57 articles from 10 newspapers in Russia, Great Britain and the USA) makes it possible to observe the dynamics of language changes. There are 31 options revealed for naming the process of distance learning in Russian texts, the most common among them are дистанционное обучение (distance learning), онлайн-обучение (online learning) and дистанционное образование (distance education). The study of English texts made it possible to reveal 21 names of the distance learning process, the most frequent ones are online learning, remote learning and distance learning. The choice of certain lexical units for naming the distance learning process is conditioned by extralinguistic factors which are reflected in the language. The study proves the significant scientific potential of naming units representing the process of distance learning.

Слепцова Лариса Аркадьевна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка и методики его преподавания Брянского государственного университета им. академика И. Г. Петровского, г. Брянск, Россия; e-mail: l.sleptsova@gmail.com