Abstract
While the year 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered for the sudden and unexpected worldwide expansion of COVID–19, which has threatened humans globally, the year 2021 is being marked by news related to the fight, vaccination and immunization against the coronavirus. However, in both years some, comparatively secondary, developments took place which were also relevant at other areas of interest. This is the case with the events surrounding the British Royal Family, especially after the interview with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, by the renowned US journalist and TV presenter, Oprah Winfrey, on 7 March 2021. The interview took place following the couple's decision in 2020 to step down from their duties as senior members of the Royal Family. Both this decision and the interview, which contained uncomfortable allegations against the Royal Family, have had a clear and widespread impact on the media at different levels. Thus, the British tabloids have played a very important role in Harry and Meghan's story.
Highlights
While the year 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered for the sudden and unexpected worldwide expansion of COVID–19, which has threatened humans globally, the year 2021 is being marked by news related to the fight, vaccination and immunization against the coronavirus
Neologisms are new words created by language users in general and by journalists, scholars or advertisers, in order to name something new, be it an idea, a discovery, a product or a political or social phenomenon
This study aims to briefly analyse and explain some examples of word creativity and trendsetting in news related to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to resign as senior members of the British Royal Family and to the aforementioned interview on CBS
Summary
While the year 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered for the sudden and unexpected worldwide expansion of COVID–19, which has threatened humans globally, the year 2021 is being marked by news related to the fight, vaccination and immunization against the coronavirus. In both years some, comparatively secondary, developments took place which were relevant at other areas of interest. The interview took place following the couple’s decision in 2020 to step down from their duties as senior members of the Royal Family. Journalists use a colloquial style, usually accompanied by innovative and creative linguistic devices such as metaphors, alliteration, rhyme, puns, neologisms and nonce formations that, on many occasions, are adopted by language users and become part of the language word stock
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