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TARTU UNIVERSITY NARVA COLLEGE DIVISION of FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Julia Gontsarova

NEOLOGISMS IN MODERN ENGLISH: STUDY OF WORD-FORMATION PROCESSES
Bachelor’s thesis
Supervisor: Lect. Olga Orehhova

NARVA 2013

PREFACE

With the development of science and technology a lot of new words appear in the English language. The language vocabulary is changing all the time at an increasingly higher speed. The development of a language brings about advancements on its different levels, for example, in Lexicology. One of such advancements- is the phenomenon of neologisms. The present paper is dedicated to Neologisms in Modern English and their word-formation processes. The main purposes of this paper are to analyze the recent neologisms that have appeared during the last eight months from the several websites, identify their word-formation processes and find out whether affixation is the most used process of forming neologisms.

The paper consists of the Introduction, two core chapters and the Conclusion. The introductory part gives the literature review on the topic and the overview of some previous research. It also includes justification of the choice of the topic and presents the research aims and the hypothesis. Chapter I, which is the theoretical part of the paper, provides background theoretical information about neologisms, the overall picture of the historical context, their usage, types, cultural acceptance and formation. The following Chapter II focuses on the practical analysis of 100 recent neologisms and provides the description of the results obtained. On the basis of such results a summary of the linguistic analysis is presented in the Conclusion, which also comments on the aims and the hypothesis of the thesis.