Neologisms in British Newspapers. Vocabulary changes (too) quickly

      Аннотация: This book you are holding in your hands analyses various ways of creating neologisms in present-day English. This is a highly contemporary issue to be traced in both written and spoken language. Nevertheless, this piece of work deals only with printed newspaper articles. Firstly, language of newspapers is described. Then, problems which are closely connected to the definition of a neologism are introduced. These expressions are further described in terms of means of lexical growth. Special attention is paid to productive word-formation processes. The research is focused chiefly on the amount of neologisms formed by individual processes of lexical word-formation. It draws a distinction between tabloids and quality newspapers. Also various spheres of human activities have been taken into account when classifying the new words. The frequency of the occurrence of neologisms is summarized at the end of the work.

Ключевые слова: Newspapers, Neologism, lexicology, vocabulary growth, word-formation, productivity, Word, journalistic style