ENGLISH NEOLOGISMS IN GEORGIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Abstract

The article deals with  English neologisms used by Facebook user students at Samtskhe-Javakheti State University. The development of technology, Internet-based communication, and the creation of social networks have advanced the role of social media. Accordingly, it improved the communication between people.

Social media has the closest connection with the Internet and since English words are mainly derived from the discourse of the Internet, they are easily and widely spread on social media. News in social media is spread through social networks. Thus, social networks are the main source of the influx of English words into the Georgian language.

Quite a great number of English lexical units are related to social networks.  Such as domain, blog platform, server, user, post, spam, share, panel, application, timeline, profile, cover, and others. Consider some of them: The word server in the Oxford dictionary is defined as a computer program that controls or provides information to several computers connected to a network. In Georgian it is defined as – server as well. The word – a user in social media means a person who uses various social networks. Spam is an advertising message sent by e-mail without the consent of the recipient. Since there was no corresponding word for this term in the Georgian language, it was established as a neologism.  The word - Panel has many definitions but in social media, it refers to a large format photo. Profile ინ social networks means a short biographical, informative page about the user, etc. As a result of the conducted research, the words young people prefer to use on social media have been identified.

The article aims to find English neologisms and study the frequency of their use among young people. Many Georgian equivalents of English neologisms require explanation, and often several words are needed. Due to this, users prefer their short versions.