МЕТАНОМІНАЦІЇ КОВІД-ЛЕКСИКИ У РОСІЙСЬКОМУ ЛІНГВІСТИЧНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ

The purpose and objectives of the article is to analyze the metalanguage of “coronavirus” neoplasms; to present a possible typology of methanominations of covid vocabulary; to characterize the ways of formation of methanominations, to predict the possibilities of growth of methanominations in covid-lexicon. The object of research is media texts, web materials, linguistic research related to the topic of coronavirus infection. The subject of study is the formation and development of the metalanguage of the covid dictionary. The material for the study was the corpus of “covid” methanominations, which includes about 100 units. The research used general scientific methods of observation and description, as well as the techniques of the definitive and contextual methods. As a result of scientific work, thematic groups of methanominations of covid neologisms were identified, the mechanisms of their formation were analyzed; the prospect of further expansion of the meta-vocabulary is considered. The author of the work came to the following conclusions. In the Russian linguistic space in the past two years, along with the formation of a nominative field of designations for a new phenomenon — coronavirus infection — a kind of metalanguage is also being formed, including the names of: 1) sets of new lexemes; 2) types of new words themselves; 3) sections of linguistics; 4) the very process / fact of the appearance of covid words in the language. Methanominations of all subgroups are mainly formed according to the models: “A + C”, “C + C” and C + (AC). Linguistic terms are used as pivotal lexemes: language, speech, word, etc. The list of attributes includes lexemes expressing the relationship between the designated item and the coronavirus situation. In most of the subgroups, there are composite methanominations with the first component covid or corona. Several methanominations are blends. The topic of Covid-19 continues to be popular, which in turn suggests that the circle of “pandemic” methanominations may expand for some time.