LEXIS OF A COVID PERIOD. EVALUATION OF THE USAGE OF NEOLOGISMS AMONG THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze and study the currency of neologisms among the undergraduate students. The work considers a special branch of lexicology – neology – the science that studies the main directions of modern neology, classification of neologisms and their distinctive characteristics. The article examines the causes of neologisms in the language and a specificity of their usage. Neologisms that have appeared in the Russian language in the last 2 years after the beginning of COVID pandemic, are dealt with. Neologisms are analyzed in terms of their origin, mode of generation and areas of usage. A list of recently launched neologisms of the Russian language was proposed and analyzed. Scientific novelty of the research lies in the online research and the evaluation of the usage of neologisms of a COVID period among the undergraduate students in 2022. The study has indicated a usage interest of the neologisms, causes of fixing and fixing unavailability of various types of neologisms.