Social Media Discourse: Neologisms in Various Word Formation Processes
Social Media Discourse: Neologisms in Various Word Formation Processes

Summary/Abstract: As a natural language, English is constantly advancing and evolving by the day. Something that had been common before is today completely out of use and the other way around. As a consequence of rapid technological development,social media has become a bearer of great influence on its users. This influence is increasing at high speed since more users join social media daily. This paper will investigate the relationship between social media and language by analysing new words and new meanings of words that originated from social media sites. The research will examine the word formation processes which occur in creation of these new words in order to determine which of the word formation processes plays the biggest part in social media discourse and which social media site of the ones analysed provides the largest number of new terms.As a natural language, English is constantly advancing and evolving by the day. Something that had been common before is today completely out of use and the other way around. As a consequence of rapid technological development, social media has become a bearer of great influence on its users. This influence is increasing at high speed since more users join social media daily. This paper will investigate the relationship between social media and language by analysing new words and new meanings of words that originated from social media sites. The research will examine the word formation processes which occur in creation of these new words in order to determine which of the word formation processes plays the biggest part in social media discourse and which social media site of the ones analysed provides the largest number of new terms.

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