Lexicological features of modern french-speaking media

This article is devoted to the analysis of current trends in the political and public discourse of the modern French language. The subject of the research conducted on the material of French-language periodicals is lexical innovations found in the language material of the modern press. It should be noted that some topics attract neology more than others, in particular, politics, which is directly due to its dynamics: the constant emergence of movements, groupings, ideas and ideologies that get their name. In this context a paradigm that includes units formed from proper names seems particularly productive. The main focus of the research is on the word-formation and semantic aspects of such neologisms, on the analysis of the most frequent examples of such lexical neoplasms. The results of the study allow us to state the wide prevalence of eponymous neologisms in the political and social French-speaking discourse, as well as to track the actual use of these lexical formations in the press using the Néoveille platform.

neology, lexicology, word formation, telescoping, eponymy, wordplay, French press, linguistic expressivity, corpus, suffixation