Neologisms in English-Language Mass Media as a Means of Manipulating the Public Opinion

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The article looks into the creation and use of neologisms in English-language mass media. The main focus is on the ability of new words to influence a potential readership and form a positive or negative opinion of a politician or socio-political phenomena. The author also describes the main trends of using this potential by mass media.

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Anna Valeryevna Bondarenko

Moscow State Linguistic University

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Email: av229910@gmail.com

PhD (Philology), Assistant Professor at the Department of English Lexicology, English language Faculty

Russian Federation

References

  1. Navasartyan, L. G. (2017). Yazykovye sredstva i rechevye priemy manipulyacii informaciej v SMI = Language means and techniques of data manipulation in Mass Media: abstract of PhD in Philology. Saratov State Pedagogical University. (In Russ.)
  2. Blakar, R. M. (2001). Yazyk kak instrument social’noj vlasti = Language as an instrument of social power. St. Petersburg: Piter. (In Russ.)
  3. Metcalf, A. (2002). Predicting New Words. The Secrets of their Success. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  4. Bel’kova, A. E. (2018). Funkcionirovanie neologizmov v internet-resursah: na materiale sajta NoNaMe = Functioning of neologisms in internet resources (NoNaMe). Nizhnevartovsk: Izd-vo Nizhnevartovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. (In Russ.).

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