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CHAPTER II. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF RECENT NEOLOGISMS

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   Method and Sample
   

As stated above, basing on the theoretical research, the paper puts forward a hypothesis that affixation or derivation is the most frequent process of forming neologisms. In order to achieve the main aim of the paper and find out whether the hypothesis is true or not, it is necessary to analyse a list of recent coinages. For this research 100 recent neologisms (from September 2012 till April 2013) were taken from various relevant Internet sources. They are:

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  http://oxforddictionaries.com/ - an Online Oxford Dictionary.
  
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  http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ - an Online Cambridge Dictionary.
  
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  http://www.wordspy.com/ - a website of Canadian writer that tracks a new words and phrases as they occur in the language.
  
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  http://www.urbandictionary.com/ - an Urban Dictionary devoted to recently coined words.
  

For my research I used the method of linguistic analysis. To make the practical part more concrete only new words were chosen excluding all newly coined collocations and phrases. A word can be defined as “The basic unit of language which composed of one or more morphemes, each consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation. In comparison with morphemes words can be used in sentences independently” (Arnold 1986: 27). In order to understand newly coined words and their word-formation processes I looked for definition and origin of each word in online websites that were chosen for the practical part of this paper. Unfortunately, I could not find the origin of the majority of neologisms what is indicating their novelty. Some of the analysed words are not in the list because it was hard to find even their definitions.
New entries that are written below are words which were created over the last eight months period.

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