TELESCOPY AS A WAY OF CREATING NEOLEXICON OF THE PANDEMIC PERIOD IN ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN

Abstract

Introduction. The pandemic not only led to changes in the way and living conditions of mankind, but also contributed to replenishing the vocabulary of the English and Ukrainian languages, being a prerequisite for the appearance of new words and phrases covering the coronavirus topic. Methods. To achieve the goal, the method of analysis of linguistic literature and the method of generalization were used. The material of the scientific work was the lexemes of the concept sphere "COVID-19 pandemic", obtained with the help of a random sample from Ukrainian- and English-language sites and web pages of print and online mass media. Research results and their discussion. The article considers the phenomenon of telescoping as a process of creating new lexemes as a result of the fusion of individual elements, the narrowing of the limits of telescoping is traced. It was revealed that the factor for the emergence of neolexems formed with the help of telescoping is considered to be "language economy", or the "law of economy of linguistic efforts", which combines the desire for brevity and the selection of the most informative language means. Linguists note the combined nature of this phenomenon, which is due to the use of methods of contraction of bases (which is characteristic of word formation), reduction and division of words (formation). For the structure of telescoping, it is important to determine its basis, that is, the arrangement of parts in telescoping. Usually, the basis is the last motivating element, if telescoping is similar to a word combination. As the results of the study showed, independent parts of the language are the basis for the creation of neolexems of the pandemic period in the compared languages. Various classifications of telescopisms are known. We structured the analyzed neolexes according to the classification based on the structural principle: full telescopisms, partial telescopisms, haplologs. The most productive type of creation of telescopisms in the English language is partial telescoping. In the Ukrainian language, the telescopic method of word formation developed under the influence of the English language and at the present stage is unproductive in the creation of neolexems during the pandemic period.