LEXICAL CHANGES IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC (ON THE EXAMPLE OF NEOLOGISMS OF SPORTS TOPICS)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to look at the lexical changes in 2020 in the field of sports that occurred in the German language under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic. The research material is presented by sports lexemes selected from the dictionary of neologisms “Neologismen – Neuer Wortschatz rund um die Coronapandemie” of the Institute of German language in Mannheim. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time the lexemes of sports topics are selected from the dictionary using a continuous sampling method, and their semantic analysis is carried out for the first time. The methodological basis of this research is the system-functional approach. The relevance of the work is determined by the purpose of research and the latest material with illustrations of their functioning in the media. The author comes to the conclusion that most of the analyzed lexemes have their graphic variants – hyphenated and merged spelling of complex nouns – as evidence of an unsettled spelling norm, which is codified by the dictionary by fixing the merged spelling of lexemes based on the models of the modern German language.