REFLECTION OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER (POLITICAL) CULTURE IN NEW WORDS USING AS AN EXAMPLE THE NEWSPAPERS NEW YORK POST AND NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Author(s):  E.I. Kriger, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia, rusil2005@yandex.ru

Issue:  Volume 38, № 2

Rubric:  Linguistics

Annotation:  In this article, we show the relationship between societal issues – fr om wars to politics to technological innovations – and the emergence of new lexical units. In analyzing articles from the New York Post and the New York Daily News (two mainstream sources of news reportage), the article highlights some thematic groups of new words, such as international news, military actions, the US presidential election of 2016, the persona of Donald Trump, media and the Internet, political correctness, ecology and nature. During the analysis of these groups, we identify new words, show prominent means of word formation (lexemes, phraseological units, metonymic and metaphorical hyphenation, polysemy) and trace the relationship between the latest linguistic picture of the world and new words. The methods chosen for the analysis of the newspaper articles allow us to conclude that the overwhelming number of new lexical units has arisen in those areas of society wh ere a large number of unresolved problems have accumulated over the years and unresolved contradictions have formed, the solutions of which are increasingly and aggressively demanded by American society. Political and social issues, focused on the current president, provide fertile ground for the emergence of new words and new usages for old words. As the pace of the development of technology increases in tempo in the world’s largest economy, new words more quickly than ever move from use in the business world to common usage. New words in American English are in all respects very much a reflection of the state of America.

Keywords:  newspaper, definition, Internet, culture, lexical unit, methods, new words

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