Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of English neologisms in ecological discourse
This article is devoted to the study of the cognitive and pragmatic features of the functioning of environmental neologisms in the English discourse. The research material was lexicographic electronic editions. The importance of studying ecological discourse is undoubtedly determined, and at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century ecolinguistics as a science which explores the elds of ecology and linguistics was introduced. The study of ecological discourse in the framework of ecolinguistic research is associated with the need to describe and analyze the language to solve environmental problems: the relationship of language and environmental issues, the reproduction of signs, properties, and relationships in the interaction of nature and person. Neology is considered one of the areas of linguistics of the future since new lexical units show the changes taking place in the language and re ect the system of values and anti-values of modern society. Neologisms x and recreate the mechanisms of studying the world as they are a tool for constructing reality. The analysis of the ecological neological units of the English discourse according to electronic lexicographic sources indicates that the axiological dominant is ecocentrism which is a new model of interaction between a person and nature.