Open AccessWord Formation during the Pandemic 2020–2021: Priorities and Features (based on the material of the French language)
Author(s) -
А. А. Сергеева,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
stephanos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2309-9917
DOI - 10.24249/2309-9917-2022-51-1-160-165
Subject(s) - prefix , word formation , pandemic , period (music) , neologism , isolation (microbiology) , linguistics , history , covid-19 , creativity , word (group theory) , field (mathematics) , political science , mathematics , medicine , biology , philosophy , law , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , microbiology and biotechnology , aesthetics , pure mathematics
Language creativity increases dramatically during periods of great social changes and upheavals. The period of acute “health crisis” 2020–2021 demonstrated both the amazing ability of the French language to quick enrichment and the ability to resist foreign influence. The article describes the priority models and methods of word formation, which turned out to be the most popular in a given time period, namely, prefixion, stem composition and telescopy. It is stated that in the field of prefix, the take-off of the activity of a particular prefix is associated with a certain stage of the development of the pandemic. Stem composition in the modern language is dominated by the highly productive non prepositional model “Nom+Nom”. Dictionary corpus is also supplemented by “scientific” composites built according to new priority models. As a reaction to the severe times of pandemic and isolation, numerous telescope neologisms are born.