THE ROLE OF NEOLOGISMS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIOPOLITICAL VOCABULARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The paper focuses on neologisms in sociopolitical vocabulary of contemporary English. In the last few decades, the world has witnessed many global events which required new words and expressions. These events are first and foremost connected with political, economic, and sociocultural spheres of life which are reflected in the language. The study of the mass media sources shows which context neologisms are used in, what connotations they have and how they are outplayed in speech. It is pointed out that neologisms are commonly portmanteau words in which case the same stem can be part of several neologisms. The paper also touches upon the lexical status of protologisms and occasionalisms and their role in media discourse.