TENDENCIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF PROFESSIONAL DENOMINATIONS IN THE SPHERE OF MEDICINE DURING COVID PANDEMIC

Abstract

The objective of the article is to study professional denomination neologisms that appeared in the sphere of medicine in the period of the new coronavirus disease. By means of continuous sampling on the job seeking specialized sites the columns Medizin und Pflege, Gesundheit, Gesundheitswesen and the headlines of job advertisements are analyzed that allow to pick out 89 newly formed lexical units directly connected with the changes that took place in the sphere of medicine during the COVID pandemic. A special attention is paid to the structural analysis of these newly formed unites. On the basis of the analyzed material it was proved that the majority of neologisms in the sphere of medicine is constituted by newly formed units created from the existing words with the help of word building patterns that can be viewed as composites and compound nominations. The author presents quantitative analysis of the denomination considered in the article. The conclusion about the role of such denominations in the description of reality during the COVID pandemic is made and their possible prospects are pointed out.