RUSSOPHONE – RUSSOPHONIC – RUSSOPHONY – RUSSOPHONIC LITERATURE – ARE THE WORDS GLOBAL OR LOCAL?

The article discusses the comprehension and description of the words Russophone, Russophone Fiction / Literature based on online dictionaries, which are represented by the computer network - Internet. By virtue of the creation of nodes of this network around the world, the global information system has made it possible to identify the actual description of these words in the dictionary entries of various electronic sources. The problematic field that covers the meaning of these words is very broad. In Russian studies, the words Russophone, Russophone Fiction / Literature are rarely used, but more often Russian-speaking, Russian-language literature. In the process of studying and analyzing dictionary entries with these words, the question of the potential possibility of using these words as terms for subsequent research was resolved. The possibility of defining the literature created by ethnically non-Russian authors in Russian as Russophone Fiction / Literature, the authors themselves – Russophone writers, and the literary process of creating Russophone literature – Literary Russophony seems logical and more accurate. The main method used in the process of working on the article is the analogy method.