FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

My favourite neologism: Chernobyl.
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that occurred on 26 April 1986 was the most serious accident ever to occur in the nuclear power industry. The reactor was destroyed in the accident and considerable amounts of radioactive material were released to the environment. In response, the authorities evacuated, in 1986, about 115,000 people from areas surrounding the reactor and subsequently relocated, after 1986, about 220,000 people from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Large areas of the three countries were contaminated with radioactive materials, and radionuclides from the Chernobyl release were measurable in all countries of the northern hemisphere. Within time, the word Chernobyl acquired a new meaning. Initially it meant the name of the place not far from Kyiv, nowadays it is used with the meaning of a disaster, a man-made tragedy, a catastrophe.

Mr. Khudoliy has been working at the National University of Ostroh Academy (NaUOA) since 1999. In 2004 he defended his PhD in Linguistics at Kyiv National Linguistic University. In 2007 Professor Khudoliy was the recipient of Fulbright Scholar Grant for research in Political Science, US Department of State. The research was dedicated to public discourse and foreign policy of the ex-President of the USA Ronald Reagan (Kansas University, Lawrence). He is the author of several monographs – Metaphors in American Journalistic Texts (2005); Functional Changes in the Language of American Journalistic Texts (2006); Political Stereotypes in Geopolitical Strategy of the USA (2009); Information warfare 2014-2022 (2022).
Prof. Khudoliy teaches the course of Modern English Lexicology and Modern English Stylistics for Bachelor and Master degree students at the Institute of Linguistics of the National University of Ostroh Academy. He lives and works in Ostroh, Ukraine.