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Sokolova G.A. [About the influence of socio-cultural processes on the sound system of the modern German language] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/18FLSK221.pdf (in Russian).

About the influence of socio-cultural processes on the sound system of the modern German language

Sokolova Galina Alexandrovna
Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: ga.sokolova@mail.ru
РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=927266

Abstract. The article deals with the detection of the relationship between socio-cultural processes which take place in human society and appearing new compound words. It is focused on compound words which are different in structure, number of components, type of relationship between components, placement of stresses in words. Using continuous sampling method allowed selecting the best examples of compound words many of which are neologisms from the news on the German radio within 2020 and 2021. The article summarizes the information about the stress placement in compound words in the modern German language, analyzes new words which were taken from such German radio waves as Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Fifty radio news issues were analyzed within 2020 and 2021 by using continuous sampling method and method of linguistic analysis. The article also demonstrates neologisms which are compound words and appeared 2020 and were included in the list of neologisms by Leibniz institute of the German language. According to the frequency of use two-part compound words prevail among neologisms. Three-part and multi-part compound words are not so common in the modern German language. While detecting compound words which are neologisms and their comparison with the words which have entered into active use by native speakers it was important to set the main stress placement schemes in them. It was revealed that at this stage of the development of the German language the prevailing trend is to highlight the first part in new compound words with the main stress.

Keywords: language; mentality; radio; compound word; stress

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