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This article presents an integrated model that describes the full life cycle of neologisms in contemporary communication. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theory, historical linguistics, and corpus-based research, it explains how new words emerge, stabilize within small communities, spread across wider networks, become normalized, enter official dictionaries, and eventually undergo semantic change or fall out of use. The paper also illustrates how digital platforms accelerate lexical innovation through rapid information exchange and algorithmic content circulation. By combining classical linguistic insights with modern empirical observations, the study offers a clear framework for understanding how neologisms develop and transform in the 21st century
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