Ткачук-Мірошниченко, О.О.Ткачук-Мірошниченко2026-04-292026-04-292021-02-25Ткачук-Мірошниченко, О. (2021). CORONASPEAK-2020: WORD-FORMATION ASPECT. Мовні і концептуальні картини світу, 1(68). https://doi.org/10.17721/2520-6397.2021.1.1010.17721/2520-6397.2021.1.10https://ir.library.knu.ua/handle/15071834/18671The article presents a first assessment of the word-stock of “corona- speak”-2020 — a new language of the Covid-19 pandemic. The English vo­cabulary is subjected to constant change due to various extralinguistic factors. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the ‘explosion' of new words. As of today, “coronaspeak” has over 1,000 words with more units appearing each day. The scale of the expansion is unprecedented, which requires reaction of the linguistic community. The article raises the issue of the classification of the “coronaspeak” word-stock. It argues that facilitated by media and social networks new words are changing their status of nonce words to neologisms, which makes the classification untimely and premature. The word-building analysis of 200 new words of “coronaspeak” allows to conclude that the cre­ation of the new “coronavirus” word-stock applies the structural patterns spe­cific for the English language. These various patterns include semantic change in denotation, derivation, compounding, blending, shortening, The analysis of the “coranaspeak” word-stock has demonstrated that the semantic changes in denotation, in particular the extension and the narrowing of a meaning, are scarce, and, hence, non-productive. Affixation, as a word-forming process, has proved semi-productive with the predominantly noun-forming suffixes. Among a limited number of shortenings we have observed final (apocope) and ini - tial (apheresis) clippings, combined with affixation, by adding the suffix — y. Compounding and blending have proved to be highly productive. According to the part of speech classification, most “coronaspeak” compounds and blends are nouns. Of special interest are a group of “coronapuns”, which have demon­strated pragmatic potential.Стаття присвячена Дослідженню лексичних інновацій «coronaspeak». Дискутується проблема статусу лексичних новотворів. Аналізується поточний склад та визначаються найбільш продуктивні типи словотво­рення. Також в статті наведено приклади контекстуального вживання лексичних інновацій «coronaspeak». _____________ СПИСОК ВИКОРИСТАНИХ ДЖЕРЕЛ Английские неологизмьі. К.: Наукова Думка, 1983. 172 с. Верба, Л. Г. Порівняльна лексикологія англійської і української мов. Вінниця: Нова книга, 2008. 248 с. Гладка, В. А. Поняття «неологізм» у світлі сучасних лінгвістичних парадигм. URL: file:///C:/Users/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1 %82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%201972/Desktop/Nznuoaf_2009_11_30. pdf (Accessed November 6, 2020). Максімов, С. Є. «Слова сьогодення» як перекладацька проблема. Вісник Харківського національного університету ім. В.Н.Каразіна. Серія: Романо-германська філологія. Харків, 2009. №848. С. 210-215. URL: https://omny.fm/shows/the-abr-podcast/coronaspeak-tracking- language-in-a-pandemic-by-ama#description (Accessed November 3, 2020). Thorne, T. cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-22-2020 -1.5540906/covidiots-quarantinis-linguist-explains-how-covid-19-has- infected-our-language-1.5540914> (Accessed November 11, 2020). Thorne, T. ‘#CORONASPEAK — the language of Covid-19 goes viral.' URL: language-and-innovation.com/2020/04/15/coronaspeak- part-2-the-language-of-covid-19-goes-viral/> (Accessed November 13, 2020). Google Scholar ДЖЕРЕЛА ІЛЮСТРАТИВНОГО МАТЕРІАЛУ URL: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200522-why-weve- created-new-language-for-coronavirus. Collins Dictionary. (CD). URL: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty. Essential workers. (EW). URL: https://www.foxnews.com/us/corona - virus-who-are-considered-essential-workers. Global Language Monitor. (LM1). URL: https://languagemonitor.com/ category/coronavirus/. Global Language Monitor. (LM2). URL: https://languagemonitor.com/ category/number-ofwords/. Macmillan Dictionary. (McM). URL: https://www.macmillandictio- nary.com/. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. URL: https://www.merriam-webster. com/dictionary/self-isolation#h1. Oxford English Dictionary. URL: https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/ lifestyle/entertainment/oxford-english-dictionary-expands-to-reflect-extraordi- nary-pandemic/. Urban Dictionary (UD). URL: https://www.urbandictionary.com/.uknew lexical unitscoronaspeakneologismword-buildingderivationblendingcompoundingshorteningлексичні інноваціїcoronaspeakнеологізмсловотвірдериваціяблендінгсловоскладанняскороченняСтаття