Semantic Analysis Of English Neologisms Related To The Covid-19 Pandemic

This article is devoted to the study of neologisms formed during the coronavirus pandemic. The object of the research is neologisms in the English language related to the coronavirus infection pandemic. The main goal of the work is to identify and describe the semantic features of English neologisms about the coronavirus pandemic. In the research process, the main characteristics of the notion of neologisms were analyzed, leading approaches to the study of neologisms were considered, and neologisms related to the coronavirus infection pandemic were divided into four thematic groups: nominations representing persons affected by coronavirus, names of infections, neologisms reflecting the consequences of quarantine, as well as lexical units related to prevention, treatment, and observation of patients with COVID. Archithemes and differential semes of these four groups were identified, and a semantic field was created based on them.