‘가짜 뉴스’의 의미와 신어로서의 지위
Semantic aspects of “fake news” and its status as a neologism
- 발행
- 2025
- 소속·발행
- 연세대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- DOI
- 10.21296/jls.2025.09.114.477
- 원문등록
- 2025-10-14
- 원문
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개념
키워드
가짜 뉴스, 탈진실, 의미 변화 탐지, 형태적 신어, 의미적 신어, fake news, post-truth, semantic change detection, morphological neologism, semantic neologism
초록
This study investigates the semantic change of “fake news” and its status as a neologism. Through analysis of a diachronic news corpus spanning 2003 to 2025, this study traces the term’s emergence as a morphological neologism in 2003, followed by a rapid increase in frequency after 2016. The analysis demonstrates that “fake news” acquired new semantic features-[+political purpose], [+economic purpose], and [+post-truth]-and that its semantic entrenchment has progressed over time. In particular, [+post-truth] evolved as a rhetorical device in political discourse, where “real news” was stigmatized as “fake news.” The findings present an integrated model for neologism research and offer implications for critical discourse analysis and media literacy within the common lexicon.