Konopatska Y. Semantic Neology in the Modern French Mass Media Discourse

The thesis deals with the study of peculiar features of semantic neologisms in the modern French language, the analysis of their functioning in the mass media discourse. The Modern French is characterized by reconstruction of the lexical layers, pragmatic and functional activity of the considerable amount of neologisms in the 70 - 90-ties of the XX century. The turbulent development of events, geopolitical changes and scientific progress caused reorganization of the lexical layers during that period, which resulted in the intensive reconstruction of the semantic structure of lexemes. The notion of neologism covers new words, combinations of words as well as the meanings of words and combinations, which appeared in the definite period of time and are perceived by the speakers as newly coined units, which get gradually integrated into the language system. Semic components of lexeme can undergo quantitative (expansion and narrowing of the valency of lexico-semantic variants) and qualitative (the main components of the semantic structure of lexeme can occupy functional periphery whereas its derivatives - play core functions) changes. This allows to state that the constant and changeable elements correlate in the semantic structure of lexeme. Such peculiarity enables to preserve the continuous nominative function and expand its possibilities simultaneously by means of changes and combinations, which stipulate the appearance of neologisms. It was determined, that pragmatics of the semantic neologisms is revealed most effectively on the material of media discourse, which is characterized by the variety of means to transmit information as well as potential possibility to manipulate the perception of the addressee. It creates the exact pragmatic effect, which functions as the medium of complete reality reflection. The use of the semantic neologisms in media discourse is stipulated by the necessity to economize the speech efforts and the attempt to reach expressiveness, attract attention to the concepts of novelty