Neology and sociolinguistics are at the crossroads of analysis for the democratization processes and need an integral approach combined with the concept studies to understand linguistic democratization dynamics fully.
Linguistic Democratization of the Modern English Language - one more book chapter of mine is now in the wild of the #openaccess academic realm. This chapter focuses on Functional Parameters of English Youth Slang Neologisms. Thanks to prof. Nata Lazebna who co-edited this collective monography with prof. Dinesh Kumar - Studies in Modern English published by The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg Press.
Big shout out to prof. Rusudan Makhachashvili who created and leads a network of Contemporary English researchers now being scattered across the globe but contributing wherever we are.
Shtaltovna, Y. (2022). Linguistic Democratization of the Modern English Language: Functional Parameters of English Youth Slang Neologisms // N. Lazebna / D. Kumar (Ed.), Studies in Modern English, Würzburg, 2022, p. 105-115. DOI: 10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-105
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The Swedish Language Council has just published a list of neologies from 2022. Unfortunately, most of them denote the opposite of democratization. Some of them are adapted loans from English, as accelerationism (accelerationism) and permakris (permacrisis). The neology autokratisering, possibly an adapted loan from English (autocratization), is interpreted as a reactivation of a 18th century Swedish word.
The peculiarities of neologisms' use are determined not only by the semantic compe-tence of the speaker. It is not only responsible for the correlation of the sign and the wordbut also the pragmatic one, which provides a permanent connection between the speakerand the sign. Pragmatic parameters of neologisms most fully manifest in Internet discourse,characterized by constantly updating lexical vocabulary.
This feature is since Internet dis-course is inherently a heterogeneous phenomenon that integrates the characteristics of other types of discourse and covers all spheres of society. Therefore, functional analysis of discursive neologisms is an essential aspect of studying neologisms
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