HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

LEXICAL PANDEMIC PERIOD MARKERS

2020. №3, pp. 92-98

Kasyanova Lyudmila Yu. - Astrakhan State University, kaslyudmila@yandex.ru

This article is devoted to the vocabulary that appeared in Russian in 2020, during the pandemic. The study is based on the material of neonominations fixed in the mass media, which are lexical markers of the named time period. The studied vocabulary layer, formed in the process of neologization of the modern Russian language, is a socially significant fragment of its lexico - semantic subsystem. Significant transformations affected both the vocabulary composition and the essential characteristics of lexical units.

Key words: lexical markers, neologization, neonomination, pandemic, chronologically marced words

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