Socio-political lexicon in Ukrainian internet-media at the beginning of the 21st century: functioning and decoding

Abstract

The article provides a complex research of Ukrainian socio-political lexicon at the 21st century beginning from the position of both information producer/communicator and its consumer/recipient. It analyses connection between lexical innovations in language of internet-media and social, political and economic transformations. The study describes dynamic changes in thematic groups of sociopolitical vocabulary, particularly those evoked by lexical borrowings. The survey conducted during research brings to light levels of socio-political lexicon decoding for respondents in various age groups. The associative experiment results reflect the invariative component in both individual and language picture of the world.