NEOLOGISMS IN THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN FRENCH NEWS MEDIA

The paper studies the issues of the French neology – the branch of linguistics which studies the processes of neologisms formation in modern French. The study is based on the texts of political content published in the periodicals of the modern French news media. The goal of the research is to study the lexical and semantic features of the French political discourse presented in the form of speeches, reports, and statements of political leaders during the election campaign for the presidency of France. The research is carried out across linguistics and political science within the linguistic approach is now called political linguistics.

The main focus is on the conditions of the political neologisms formation in the political discourse of French politicians and party leaders. The paper studies numerous borrowings from the English language, specific features of word-building patterns that generate anglicisms in the language of the modern French news media. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of such neologisms as “Penelopegate”, “Brexit”, “Frexit” and “Grexit”, which are in the focus of attention of French political leaders. The final part of the paper shows the results of the linguistic analysis of the political discourse of the election campaign leaders: Marin Le Pen (“National Front” party) and Emmanuel Macron (movement “Forward!”). The results of the study of political neologisms can be used in building the French-Russian political thesaurus which is considered to be a linguo-didactic tool used for forming the professional competence of future linguists and interpreters.