THE EVOLUTION OF MEDIA LANGUAGE IN THE PERIOD OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: NEOLOGISMS IN THE MEDIATEXT

Abstract

The article discusses evolution of the language of the media in the era of the coronavirus pandemic in terms of the formation of a new layer of vocabulary. The authors made an attempt to fix the update of the media language in the current period of time. The phenomenological characteristics of the process of studying the language features of media discourse are determined. The results of a study of the latest contaminated forms of occasional words that appeared in the period from October 2021 to January 2022 and formed from key concepts are presented. The authors update the composition of the keywords of the epoch and present the results of a selection of inflections that have not yet been included in currently existing works on media vocabulary. The meaning of these words and the context are given. Conclusions are drawn about productivity of keywords for the word-building potential of media discourse. The authors conclude that the new media vocabulary is currently at the stage of formation and usage. This stage will last as long as the pandemic develops and the coronavirus situation changes.