The article introduces the term “globalism” to denote the words similar in phonetics (and/or graphics) and coinciding in meaning (fully or partially) in global and in globally significant languages. The authors analyze the notion defined by this term. The issues and prospects of globalisms research in the Russian language are determined.

There is analyzed the adaptation of the English word “selfie” in the modern Russian language in the context of intensification of the processes of borrowing and actualization of the English vocabulary in the Russian language at the beginning of the XXI century.

There is revealed the perspective of using the term fusion in literary criticism on the basis of the material of the post-modernism theory. There is made the conclusion about fusion as the basic artistic principle of post-modernism