FEATURES OF THE DERIVATION OF SOCIO-POLITICAL NEOLOGISMS IN MASS MEDIA DISCOURSE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

This article examines the features of word formation in socio-political neologisms within mass media discourse at the beginning of the 21st century. Contemporary Ukrainian-language media are characterised as an important conduit for reporting on various events, social, political and economic transformations, as well as wars. Consequently, in these conditions, they act as an active factor in the formation of new linguistic units. It is in the media environment that derivational intentions are most clearly realised, ensuring the naming of new processes, phenomena, events and concepts, as well as the reinterpretation of those already known. The article identifies and analyses the main methods, sub-methods and features of the derivation of new socio-political units. The productive methods of word formation for the studied lexicon and terminology have been established: morphological, telescopic and lexico-semantic. Among the sub-methods of the morphological method in the derivation of socio-political neologisms, prefixation, suffixation, composition, word formation, and abbreviation are found to be particularly active. The conclusions state that these lexical units are, in part, an important element of linguistic dynamics. They also allow us to identify trends in the development of contemporary socio-political vocabulary.