Diminutive "Потихоньку" in the Texts of Parallel Corpus
The aim of the study is to identify the features of using the colloquial diminutive потихоньку in the texts of translations from English into Russian and from Russian into English, to refine the semantics on the basis of data from the parallel corpus. The scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that the diminutive потихоньку is considered for the first time from the point of view of linguistic specificity. As a result, the features of the contextual use of the adverb потихоньку in the texts of the parallel corpus are highlighted and characterized, which are considered to clarify the semantic nature of the diminutive. On the basis of the study, the question of the possibility of describing the adverb as a lingo-specific unit is considered.