Semantic and Structural Aspects of Donald Trump’s Neologisms

Liudmyla Holubnycha (), Ilona Kostikova (), Tetiana Besarab (), Yevheniia Moshtagh (), Yuliia Lushchyk () and Olga Dolgusheva ()
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Liudmyla Holubnycha: Doctor of Science in Education, Ph. D in Education, Full Professor, Department of Foreign Languages # 3, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Ilona Kostikova: Doctor of Science in Education, Ph. D in Philology, Ph. D in Education, Full Professor, Head of Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language, H.S.Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Tetiana Besarab: Ph. D in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages # 3, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Yevheniia Moshtagh: Ph D in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, O.M.Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Yuliia Lushchyk: Ph D in Education, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Sumy National Agrarian University, Sumy, Ukraine
Olga Dolgusheva: Ph. D in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of the English Language and Methods of its Teaching, Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine

Postmodern Openings, 2020, vol. 11, issue 2Sup1, 43-59

Abstract: The article exposes the semantics and structure in neologisms of current US President Donald Trump. The analysis of Donald Trump’s authorial neologisms as a leading political figure on a global scale, whose language influences the English-speaking world, shaping his picture, seems significant and timely. The aim of the study is to identify and systematize the semantic and structural features of D. Trump’s neologisms. The tasks are to analyze the lexical content of public speeches, interviews and posts on D. Trump’s social networks in order to identify new lexical units created by him and to summarize them; to define the semantics and structure of D. Trump’s neologisms. The findings are 30 new lexical units attributed to D. Trump. Their analysis makes it possible to organize them into usual (which are already in the dictionaries of modern English), discursive (which function in the discourse but are not yet fixed in Oxford dictionary), and new lexical units of indefinite nature. The analysis of the semantics in found neologisms has revealed what they describe the new realities of contemporary political life in the United States of America. The analyzed neologisms have predominantly a negative connotation. The conclusion of the paper is D. Trump’s neologisms have structural differences as the following: they are either phraseological neologisms or morphological neologisms built by the affixed method, either as abbreviations, or as a play on words.

Keywords: authorial neologism; semantics; structural aspects; negative connotation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18662/po/11.2Sup1/178

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