Vol. 3, Issue 1, Part A (2026)

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically transformed the English language introducing new lexical terms, semantic changes, and pragmatic norms that are still effective in the post-pandemic world. This scientific review explores new tendencies in writing English after the pandemic and concentrates on the definition of vocabulary, discourse, and pragmatic adjustments in social, professional, educational, and digital environments. The paper summarizes recent linguistic studies to examine the way in which communication driven by crisis made the formation of neologisms, borrowing, compounding, and semantic recontextualization faster. Keywords of health, risk, remote interaction, and digitalization became used not only in specialized registers but also daily and the meaning of already existing words has been broadened or metaphorical. In addition to the use of lexis, the review identifies shifts in pragmatic practices such as the changes in politeness strategies, the manifestation of uncertainty and empathy, and the taming of crisis sensitive discourse in institutional and interpersonal communication. The heightened use of digital platforms has continued to affect turn taking, modality and interpersonal stance, transforming the rules of formality and interaction. As well, the English after the pandemic is indicative of the wider sociocultural change including increased attentiveness to mental health, work-life separation, and group responsibility, which linguistically are marked by evaluative and stance-marking categories. There are also pedagogical and applied implications in the review that the English language teaching and the professional communication training programs need to consider such changing norms. In spite of increasing attention, studies in this field are still disjointed, with little longitudinal and cross-cultural studies. This review finds that the post-pandemic English is a new stage of linguistic adaptation under the influence of the world crisis experience, which can contribute to the useful conclusions about the interconnection between the linguistic change, social unsteadiness, and communicative stability.