Football Neologisms in Slavic Neography (2014–2024)

Abstract

In contemporary linguistics, internet-based and corpus-driven neography is gradually replacing traditional (classical) neography, while lexicographers increasingly involve ordinary language users in the compilation of dictionaries of neologisms. This development provides grounds for distinguishing between highly regulated, weakly regulated, and spontaneous (unregulated) forms of internet neography. This article analyzes how football neologisms—new lexical items directly associated with football—have been represented in Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Croatian neography over the past decade (2014–2024), and examines trends in their lexicographic treatment. The study concludes that football-related innovations have received relatively little scholarly attention, primarily due to limitations of the available source base and the criteria used for material selection. Furthermore, the proportion of football neologisms recorded in both print and online dictionaries averages 0.56%.