A12456

The Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The Kazakh-American Free University

The Department of Foreign Languages

Course Work:

English neologisms in mass media

Made by: Gordeeva Anna
Group: Trаnslаtion mаjor II
Accepted by: Y.V.Novitskaya
Grade:

Ust-Kamenogorsk, 2014
CONTENTS

Introduction
3
1.
Neologism as linguistic phenomenon. Innovations in English
5
1.1.
Definition of “neologism” and its characteristics
5
1.1.1.
Clarifying values neologism of context
8
1.1.2.
Methods of forming neologisms in English
8
1.2.
Specificity of innovations in the vocabulary of the English language
12
1.3.
The trend of using euphemistic neologisms in modern English
15
2.
Analysis of neologisms in English newspapers
18
Conclusion
25
Bibliography
26
Appendices
27

INTRODUCTION

Neologisms are the main problem of modern scientific research. A great deal of new objects and processes are incessantly created in technology. We can find new ideas and changes in social life and science. Neologisms can be defined as newly coined lexical units that purchase new sense. And every time neologisms appeared in our life. But several of neologisms have a short-lived. They appeared and disappeared.The 16th century was the period of the great course in literature called Renaissance. A lot of writers used new words in their poems and stories in order to enrich the English language.

The object of the research work is lexical-semantic features of neologisms in modern English.

The subject of the research work is way of formation English neologisms.

The main goal of this work is to describe neologisms by their structure, to give examples of neologisms and learn all ways of formation English neologisms.

The objectives of this work:

1.explain what is neologisms
2.describe ways of formation English