LA NÉOLOGIE, DE LA NÉCESSITÉ AU RIDICULE
NEOLOGY, FROM NECESSITY TO RIDICULOUS

Summary/Abstract: The present article is aimed at analysing neologisms, mainly American English neologisms, which seem to have invaded the Romanian language over the last couple of years. We will look into their attempt to adapt to the Romanian morphological system, their penetration into the group of collocations (traditionally known as having a structural fixity), we will also analyse the phenomenon of word „creation” in the Romanian language, starting from already existing words, but having the English language as a model (for instance, verbalisation on a nominal basis). As far as this aspect is concerned, the terms of reference are part of what we call „the pandemic vocabulary”. Last but not least, we will try to highlight the fields which assimilate these neologisms and the socio-professional categories that use them as well as the way in which „global jargon”, as Pascal-Brucker calls it in a humorous, but also bitterly ironic manner, is obtained in certain circumstances.

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