The paper deals with the issue of new terms in the information society. The authors consider the concepts of neologism, legal term and terminoid giving examples. The paper states that currently the process of neologization in the Russian-language legal discourse is characterized by the fact that one of the active sources of terminology are terminoids which initially operate in new fields of law and function for nominating innovative technologies in law. The authors mark two ways of appearing new terms in legal terminology with regard to the language of civil contracts. Focusing on borrowing as one of the most productive sources of replenishing legal terminology, the authors consider new lexemes connected with innovative concepts and digitalization. The paper shows the analysis of terminological units borrowed from the English language. The authors conclude that the current term system of both legal discourse in general and the sphere of civil law in particular is flexible, mobile, susceptible to previously unproductive ways of forming or borrowing terms, and even the use of terms with the preservation of English spelling, as well as metaphor terms.

The paper describes legal media discourse, which is a hybrid discourse formation whose preconstructs are legal discourse and media discourse. The study was conducted using general scientific methods: induction, generalization, analysis, synthesis, description; and specialized linguistic methods: continuous sampling method, discourse analysis. The texts of legal media discourse presented on the official websites of the English-language media platforms such as The Guardian, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times, Washington Monthly, etc. form the empirical basis of the study. Legal discourse and media discourse are institutional discourses whose interaction results in forming an independent hybrid. The article provides the analysis of legal media discourse using the pattern of the institutional discourse description proposed by V.I. Karasik, which consists of the following criteria: typical participants, chronotope, goals, values, strategies, genres, precedent texts, and discursive formulas. The characteristics of the discursive hybrid under study are determined by referring to the preconstruct discourses features identified at the present time. The description of legal media discourse as a specific sphere of the intersection of law and media is viewed as not a mechanical sum of the characteristics of legal discourse and media discourse, but their synthesis which accounts for the independent nature of the hybrid discursive formation.

The article deals with the problem of "roughness" of some legal terms used in the pension legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as in the legislation establishing rules for people with disabilities. There are extracts from various legal sources, where such incorrect terms as "period of survival", "age of survival", "grandfather", "grandmother", "invalid", "old age pension", "age", etc. The incorrect use of those terms is analyzed from the point of view of modern linguistic and social developments. The positive and negative aspects of the use of diminutive forms as a way to mitigate the "rough" legal terminology are substantiated. As a means of adaptation of outdated and having become discordant terms such stylistic device as euphemization is considered, which allows to construct a neutral or positive connotation of the legal term. Examples of the use of euphemisms in legislative texts are given, and their adequacy in terms of political correctness and modern language trends is analyzed. It is noted that the tendency to euphemization is peculiar to the Russian pension legislation, however, today it is not fully realized. Examples of "smoothing" of rough terms in legislative acts are given, in particular, softening of the term "old age" in Federal laws "on labor pensions in the Russian Federation" and "on state pension provision in the Russian Federation". Social factors (increase in life expectancy of people, period of their working capacity, quality of life) influencing change of understanding of connotative meaning of the term "old age" are pointed out. Possible variants of the euphemization of the term "old-age pension" in the pension legislation are proposed allowing to replace this term with a more harmonious word.

The article presents an overview of the events in the framework of the intellectual forum "Frankfurt School: Reading Habermas" held at Volgograd State University with the support of the Moscow branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

The paper examines the features of analytical articles in the mass media, which appear due to the interaction of different discourses that form a specific genre of media analytics. Using the material of original analytical articles written in English and German, and their published translations, the authors investigate manifestations of such characteristics as hybridity, diffuseness, intertextuality, as well as translation problems that arise during translation. Based on the analysis of scientific works on the issues of genre hybridity and diffuseness in media discourse, the authors clarify the ambiguous interpretation of the concept of diffuseness and define its boundaries with the concept of hybridity. The research also reveals the following forms of intertextuality caused by the interaction of discourses within the genre of analytical article on legal issues: reference to another text in the form of a hyperlink, citation, allusion. The analysis of fragments from analytical articles of media discourse containing manifestations of hybridity, diffuseness, and intertextuality demonstrates that a translator who is dealing with a text with these characteristics should excellently know the terminology of the basic and projective discourse in the original and target language, be aware of the neologization processes in both discourses, master stylistic transformations, and take into account the pragmatic factors caused by the interaction of the discourses.