Neologisms in the German Language - New Words from a Semantic Point of View
Abstract
Every change in the political, social, economic and cultural life of a country is directly reflected in its language and especially its vocabulary, where its vitality is expressed clearly. The fast political developments and new economic and social circumstances present a language with new lexical expectations that are fulfilled through changes in general vocabulary, but also in specific social and political vocabularies. The innovations here are diverse and different. Scope and extension of vocabulary depend upon the communicative needs of the language community. Thus new words are constantly formed, others die out, their meanings change or words from other languages are borrowed. More than any other component of language, its vocabulary is subject to changes; after all, the need for names changes all the time, and grows from the everyday life of a language community, from economics and technology. How and why new words are formed and in which way this is dependent on individual areas of the German language such as technical language, language of youths or newspaper language are the goals of this paper.
Keywords: neologism, German language, process of lexicalization, structure of neologisms, new meaning, Anglicism.
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