ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT ON LINGUISTICS (THE CASE STUDY OF FRENCH AND SPANISH LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The research provides a comparative analysis of lexical units in Romance sister languages that appeared during the Covid-19 pandemic. The relevance of this study is ensured by the need for linguistic understanding of the pandemic impact. The task of the research is to analyze the ways neologisms form and their functioning in French and Spanish linguocultures. The case study is the vocabulary of dictionaries of the languages under consideration and original Internet sites. Within the research, an unconventional way of French and Spanish neologism formation is revealed, as a determinologization of existing concepts. According to the results of the research, it is found that neutral neologisms, denoting mostly culture-specific concepts common to both French and Spanish linguocultures, perform a full socialization cycle in the language, while stylistic neologisms are used for a short period of time in media articles and social networks, and are not fixed in the active vocabulary of native speakers.