A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Lexical Innovation among the Youth in Tlemcen city

Abstract

his study aimed to analyze and identify the linguistic phenomenon of lexical innovation among young people of Tlemcen speech community, the reason behind coining new words in their conversation and factors that help the spread of these words. To complete the investigation the questionnaire and the word list were adopted in this work as research Instruments in, after gathering the data from the sample we found that Tlemcen's youth use a lot of new words, especially borrowed words from English, in their daily conversations and on social media with peers and friends. The main reason for coining new words is to sound more fashionable and break routine.