Суржик: лексичний аспект (на матеріалі телепередачі "Ключовий момент", лексикографічних джерел XIX-XXI ст. і резултатів анкетування)

This article offers an analysis of the lexical material of a video clip taken from the program "Klyuchevyi moment" of the Ukrainian TV channel "Inter" aired 16.07.2008). It examines the speech of the heroine Natalia, a middle-aged women from the village Kuryn' in Bakhmach district, Chernihiv region. The article is focused on the analysis of lexical units that we think of as Russian words or dialect/colloquial elements. On the basis of 8 lexicographical sources coming from the period between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, we have come to the conclusion that one can distinguish of the phenomenon of Surzhyk nad the determination, for the better understanding of the phenomenon of Surzhyk and the determination of the characteristics of the video clip, a linguistic inquiry of residents of Kherson. Kharkiv and Chernivtsi was conducted.