NEOLOGISMS AS A REFLECTION OF THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The objective of the study is to identify neologisms borrowed from English in modern German, analyze them and thereby draw attention to the fact of Americanization of the language reflected in new words. The lexemes selected from the dictionary “Neologismenwörterbuch. Neologismen der Zehnerjahre”, compiled by scientists of the Institute of the German Language (German: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS) and posted on the OWID online dictionary platform (das Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch), are used as the research material. Thus, the relevance of the work is determined by the purpose and the latest factual material. The main research methods are the continuous sampling method, the description method and the quantitative method. The analyzed material allows to conclude that out of 625 lexical units of the latest dictionary “Neologismenwörterbuch. Neologismen der Zehnerjahre” 230 lexemes are Anglo-American borrowings. Thus, the use of the quantitative method made it possible to calculate the percentage of German neologisms borrowed from the English language, which amounted to 39%, it means that their number is significant, and this is the basis for stating the fact of active Americanization of the modern German language.