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Zamiatina A.D. [Modern English neologisms as a factor in reshaping the linguistic worldview (a study of English media discourse)] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2026, Vol. 17, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/18FLSK226.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/18FLSK226

Modern English neologisms as a factor in reshaping the linguistic worldview (a study of English media discourse)

Zamiatina Anastasiia Dmitrievna
Gagarin Yu.A. Saratov State Technical University, Saratov, Russia
E-mail: parsingo@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7167-0308
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=1045386

Abstract. The article examines modern English neologisms (2019–2025) and their role in shaping the linguistic worldview. The relevance of the work is determined by two major neological booms of recent years: the first (2019–2021) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated hundreds of new words (e.g. lockdown, vax, long covid), and the second (2024–2025) driven by the dominance of internet culture and TikTok, which resulted in the addition of thousands of new units to the Cambridge and Merriam-Webster dictionaries. This research fragment, based on 500 dictionary entries from the Cambridge Dictionary, Macmillan Dictionary, Urban Dictionary, Wiktionary, and Collins Dictionary, examines two aspects of neologisms: their formation and their axiological function. The most productive word-formation patterns (compounding, affixation, shortening) are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the axiological markedness of neologisms, which are interpreted as «condensed» value judgments that encode both negative (for example: dogfishing, nuisance streamer, clanker) and positive (for example: choremancing, digital sobriety, treatonomics) societal attitudes. A link between neologisms and the processes of semantic derivation (polysemy) is established. The most significant transformations of the linguistic worldview are identified in the following conceptual domains: the work/leisure conceptual sphere, the formation of new ethical categories, the transformation of consumption patterns, the ecologization of everyday life, and the value system of Generation Z. The author concludes that modern English neologisms serve as a sensitive indicator of societal value transformations, reflecting a shift towards mindfulness, environmental responsibility, and a redefinition of the boundaries between work and leisure.

Keywords: modern English neologisms; linguistic worldview; axiological function; neological boom; word-formation patterns; semantic derivation; value transformations

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