The paper aims to identify semantic and pragmatic features of French COVID-related neologisms. The article provides a typology of neologisms appeared in the French language during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the authors for the first time identify linguistic peculiarities of newly appeared lexical units representing characteristic features of French word formation in the pandemic period. The research findings are as follows: the authors propose a classification of French COVID-related neologisms describing political, economic and network situation under pandemic conditions; emphasize semantic inventiveness and terminological richness associated with pragmatic intentions of language bearers.
The aim of the study is to identify the semantic and pragmatic transformations of language in the conditions of digital media reality reflection. The basic notions related to the transfer of the real world into the network information space are being defined based on the material of Russian, English and French, including such notions as ‘digital media’, ‘digital media reality’, ‘digital worldview’, ‘digital culture’ and ‘digital discursive practices’. The study is novel in that it is the first to outline the status of digital media reality as a substitute for the real worldview and digital media resources as a priority in receiving, processing and transmitting information involving a multi-format language material. As a result, the main characteristics of both digital media reality and the language transformations associated with the reflection of the digital worldview were revealed. Examples of discussion of smart home projects on various Internet platforms, including advertising texts, online dictionaries, blogs, social networks, forums and electronic corpora, were given as illustrations, as well as the possibilities of presenting the SMART HOME concept in the European digital media reality were shown.
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