The Language Of German Politics: Depolitonyms

Abstract

The article examines the political vocabulary of modern Germany, particularly, the lexical units formed from the names of parties (political names), for which the term depolitonyms is introduced. The research material was the digital media resources of the Federal Republic of Germany, where a large corpus of depolitonyms is found. The study revealed that the names of political parties in Germany have a high derivational potential, they act as a resource for the formation of concepts of social and political life, thereby performing a resource function in replenishing the modern political vocabulary. It was revealed that, first of all, abbreviated and truncated party names are the basis for the formation of a large volume of concepts and phenomena of political life. As for the methods of their formation, the dominant way of forming depolitonyms is compounding with the inclusion of the party name. At the same time, prefixing can be considered one of the effective ways of forming terms in the field of politics, however, prefixes of German origin are inferior in word formation to prefixes of Greek-Latin origin. In addition, complex depolitonyms are identified, including words of English origin, which corresponds to the international nature of political processes and the leading role of the English language in the world community.