New Neologism in Social Media. Based of vocabulary of Instagram and Twitter (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2.0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: How new neologisms arise and what impact they have on our society will be examined in this paper.
The paper will be structed in such a way that the question how new neologism occur in our vocabulary will be analysed first. It is proceeded in such a way that the first part will focus on the explanation of the term morphology and afterwards the individual processes of word formation, that are connected to morphology, will be presented. After the theoretical part, the handling of word formations in the area of social media is investigated. The focus is particularly on the platforms Twitter and Instagram and which different processes can be found under the post and the comment section. Afterwards, the applied methodology to gather and investigate the data used in this term paper, will be described. Thus, the results will be presented followed by a discussion of explaining and analysing the previous results, studies, and the methodology. Eventually, a conclusion with a summary of the results and its discussion of the term paper topic will be given.