Derivative neologisms as sociocultural dominants in the Russian and Czech languages of the modern period

Nadezhda Samylicheva,Jiří Gazda,N Valeeva

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20208801022

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of word-formation neologisms in modern media speech from the point of view of their sociocultural characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic (on Russian and Czech internet speech). In derivational processes, socially significant, socalled key words play an important role, forming a special socio-cultural space, thereby becoming a kind of dominants in modern speech. Such lexemes give a life to a big quantity of derived units. So, neologisms with initial words reflecting the situation of a pandemic in 2020 in modern Russian and Czech society, clearly enough evidence of public attitudes - a negative assessment and rejection of what is happening and at the same time irony and a language game.

Highlights

The relevance of this research is provided by the popularity of occasional word formation that has actively increased in the past few decades
The formation of neologisms based on keywords is interesting and significant
The considered array of neologisms indicates that the authors, when creating new words, use both typical and non-standard methods of word formation

Summary

Introduction

The relevance of this research is provided by the popularity of occasional word formation that has actively increased in the past few decades. Purpose of the study is to analyze word-formation neologisms in modern media speech in terms of their socio-cultural characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic (on Russian and Czech internet speech). Socially significant, so-called key words [1] play an important role, forming a special socio-cultural space, thereby becoming a kind of dominants in modern speech [2, 3]. Such lexemes become the basis for the production of many new units. Neologisms with initial words reflecting the situation of the pandemic in 2020 in modern Russian and Czech society, clearly enough evidence of public sentiments - a negative assessment and rejection of what is happening and at the same time irony and a language game

Neologisms in modern mass media

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