ABOUT STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF NEW LEXICAL UNITS IN THE MODERN AMERICAN PRESS

Abstract

The article presents a structural-semantic analysis of new lexical units that appeared in the American print media, such as the New York Post New, York Daily News, People magazine and Fortune magazine. The causes and conditions of their formation in various areas of American society are analyzed. The relationship between the problems of everyday life and the need for new words to describe the realities of modern life are traced. In particular, examples from youth slang, technology and medicine, and business and law are examined. When analyzing articles from American newspapers, methods such as component analysis of lexical meanings, analysis of vocabulary definitions of linguistic units and intralingual comparison are used. A theoretical analysis of the word-building resources of the newspaper language is carried out and the most productive ways of forming new lexical units in some thematic groups are identified. New words with high syntactic activity are considered. The examples demonstrate the frequency of manifestation of specific word-formation methods and their ranking in the studied groups: abbreviation, graphic neologism, truncation, contraction, contamination, borrowing, metaphor. A tendency has been revealed in the emergence of many new units formed by acquiring new values by existing units.