Neologisms of the Era of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Linguocultural Aspect

In the last century scientists have noted unprecedented growth of neologisms. The cause of neological boom in 2020 was precisely due to spreading coronavirus pandemic, which left a mark in many languages around the world. Language, in turn, is the reflection of all relevant phenomena and events in society. This article is devoted to the study of neologisms that arose during the coronavirus pandemic and are considered in the linguocultural aspect. We analyze words appearing in the Russian language that reflect the mentality of the creatoras well as being the result of the influence of other cultures on their emergence.The article is based on the materials of investigations of lexical units which reflect a new reality and are widely used in mass media, have already recorded in the National Corpus of Russian Language and in the dictionary of the Russian language of the coronavirus era. The analyses showed that the neologisms of the pandemic era deserve the attention not only because of their formal-semantic features, but also are one of the manifestations of elements of the culture of different peoples and perception of the surrounding reality by speakers of the language.