Study of lexical creativity in the French newspaper Le Monde during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Abstract: Our research work is part of applied linguistics, and aims to analyze, more precisely, the dynamics of neologisms present in one of the most read newspapers in France that is «Le Monde». The electronic version of the articles in this journal published during the Covid-19 pandemic is, in our research project, the corpus on which we relied throughout our research. Moreover, our study is a lexico-semantic approach of all the new words collected in this journal. The method we adopted consists of a double analysis namely quantitative and qualitative. The first is the statistical analysis of the neologisms collected. The second allows us to clarify the different processes of formation of these new lexicons that emerge in French society. The results obtained show that the journalists of the newspaper Le Monde, integrate in their writings, neological lexicons from distinct typologies and grammatical classes, and whose creation molds are also diverse. Keywords: applied linguistics, neologisms, lexico-semantic approach, «Le Monde» journal, training process