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The article examines the role of key words in the titles of literary works on the basis of the novel Strangers by a contemporary British writer Anita Brookner. Being one of the strong positions of a text, a title makes a given work of verbal art notable and draws the reader’s attention to it. Placing the key word of a literary work in such strong position increases its aesthetic potential. The linguopoetic analysis of the keyword stranger was supported by the use of Sketch Engine, a computer program that works with text corpora.

The aim of this article is to try to differentiate the notions of fashionable words and key words of the modern times. The comparative analysis of these linguistic phenomena is presented in this work. The author comes to the conclusion that fashionable words characterize the aesthetic tastes of society, have a bright outer shell, in the center of attention of native speakers are short time.