scholarly journals Social Networks: A Source of Lexical Innovation and Creativity in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Peninsular Spanish

There is no doubt that the Internet, where English is ubiquitous, has revolutionized our way of life. Socially, it has opened frontiers to such an extent that nowadays human beings can be permanently connected, no matter the distance between them, in virtual encounters where social networks play a crucial role. Linguistically, on the other hand, it has created a new global language which combines properties of written and oral speech. The Internet’s lexical level, in particular, is described as extremely innovative, creative and playful since it is full of neologisms, many of which are Anglicisms, coined to name the new realities constantly brought along with the evolution of the digital world. In order to demonstrate that social networks are indeed the source of a wide array of creative and playful neological Anglicisms in Peninsular Spanish, we have carried out a corpus-based analysis of the names of five current social and interactive forms of Internet communication in two contemporary Spanish corpora; specifically, that of the indirect social network generically known as the blog and those of the direct social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp. Our study focuses, specifically, on four facets of these neological Anglicisms: (i) their date of introduction into the language; (ii) their frequency of occurrence; (iii) their diverse spellings; and (iv) finally, the different word-formation processes they enter.

scholarly journals Onyms as a Resource of Neologization in FB-Comments

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Tetyana Andreyeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Exclamation Mark

The article discusses word-formation processes taking place in Internet communication (particularly, in Facebook comments), where onym denoting a public person is used in diverse modifications. It is alleged that Internet usage transformed people into participants of communication processes that have neither time nor spatial restrictions. The ability to use information technologies became not only the key of physical existence but also the assuarance of spiritual life for most people, as the World Wide Web is the main interactive environment where active mass communication takes place. The fact of conversion of social networks to sources of information is substantiated. It is determined that the language of Internet communication has a specific ability to adapt means of conversational speech to writing style specific to network communication. Communication in social networks, where there is an opportunity to speak practically uncensored, is characterized by looseness. Hence, limitless possibilities open up before its participants for the embodiment of their informative and expressional intensions. It is stated that Internet commenting allows its participants to demonstrate creative component of their personalities, represent their civil position, life views, evaluate any event etc. It is established that modern Ukrainian information space is characterized with a large number of onyms denoting public persons that are used as derivational materials in the processes of creating neologisms. To a large extent, this was facilitated by pre-election political technological moves, which consisted of creating a logo from the first syllable of the candidate's surname together with an exclamation mark – "Ze!" (Zelenskiy). The types of modifications of last name are found (reduction into one syllable, up to two syllables, cutting to the non-suffixed part), derivational methods and word making models are identified (morphological, semantic, analytical derivation). The processes associated with derivational acts have been clarified. The use of a language game involving multiple variations of the surname is stated. The range of perspectives of language of Internet communication research is outlined, which is constantly gaining momentum.

scholarly journals Некоторые Инновационные словообразовательные процессы в популярных интернет-текстах в русском и арабском языках Some innovative word-formation processes in popular Internet texts in Russian and Arabic

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (43) ◽  
pp. 186-207
Author(s):  
Zahraa Jasim Mohammed ◽  
◽  
Mahmood Ghazi Challoob ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Negative Word ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Negative Connotation

В статье рассматриваются инновационные словообразовательные процессы в интернет-текстах, появление новых производных слов, новых аффиксов, словообразовательных моделей и способов словообразования. На примере нескольких неологизмов в статье показаны как возможности интернет-словотворчества, так и возможности изучения функционирования новообразований в интернет-коммуникации. Выбранные для анализа слова можно отнести к ключевым словам текущего времени. Отрицательная оценка в таких словах может быть задана производящим словом, суффиксом, неблагозвучием или созвучием слова с другим отрицательно оцениваемым словом. Так, образованные с помощью нейтральных суффиксов -изм, -ист слова рашизм (идеология «великорусскости», от пренебрежительного названия России - Раша, Рашка) и рашист (тот, кто придерживается идеологии рашизма) имеют ярко выраженную отрицательную окраску не только за счет отрицательной окраски производящего слова (человек, который, говоря по-русски, называет Россию Рашей, конечно,показывает свое отношение к стране, но и за счет того, что они ассоциируются со словами фашизм и фашист. Интернет, являясь международным средством коммуникации, должен поддерживать разные языки мира. В мире наблюдается рост числа пользователей его инструментов и приложений интернета среди разных людей, включая профессионалов, домохозяек и студентов. Интернет представляет собой гетерогенную среду, состоящую из различных конфигураций аппаратного и программного обеспечения, которые необходимо настраивать для поддержки используемых языков. Развитие интернет-контента и сервисов имеет важное значение для расширения использования интернета. Часть этих улучшений. Например: 1-Аналитика Сайтов И Seo 2- Smm И Smo 3- Aso 4- Email Маркетнинг 5- Ppc - Маркетнинг 6- Контент - Маркетнинг 7- Маркетнинг Вляния 8- Другие Плагины Для Повышения Эффекитвности включает в себя возможность поддержки нескольких языков и предоставление инструментов для создания и использования многоязычного контента. Abstract The present article discusses innovative word-formation processes in Internet texts, the emergence of new derivative words, new affixes, word-formation models, and word-formation methods. Using several neologisms as an example, the article shows both the possibilities of Internet word-making process and the possibilities of studying a newly established work through Internet communication. The words selected for analysis can be attributed to the keywords of the current time. (In particular, the words included in the list of "Words of 2019") there are number of words formed by the suffix method, which is the traditional method of the Russian word formation. A negation of these words is usually made through suffixes, dissonances or consonances with another negative word. Therefore, These words are formed through the addition of the neutral suffixes -ism, -ist, the words rashism (ideology of "Great Russia", from the Russia - Rasha, Rashka) and rashist (one who adheres to the ideology of rashism) have a negative connotation due not only to the negative connotation produced words (a person who, speaking in Russian, calls Russia Rushey, of course, shows his negative attitude towards the country), but also to the fact that they are associated with the words fascism and fascist. The Internet is considered a worldwide tool of communication used extensively by students, housewives and professionals as well The Internet is a heterogeneous environment consisting of various hardware and software configurations that need to be configured to support the languages used. The development of Internet content and services is essential for expanding Internet usage. Some of these improvements include the ability to support multiple languages and provide tools for creating and using multilingual content. For example: 1-Site Analytics And Seo 2 - Smm And Smo 3- Aso 4 - Email Marketing 5 - Ppc - Marketing 6 - Content Marketing 7 - Influence Marketing 8 - Other Plug ins To Improve Efficiency

scholarly journals The influence of the English language on the description of cosmetic products

2017 ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Cristina Tejedor Martínez
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Cosmetic Products ◽  
International Language ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Information Consumers ◽  
Selection Of

The influence of English as an international language has increased in many areas, from scientific, technological, economic and political fields to cinema, music and advertising. The use of English as a global language has exerted an enormous pressure over languages, especially on the lexical level. Since the second half of the 20th century, many works have already dealt with Anglicisms in Spanish (most cases of recent borrowings) in various fields, including fashion (Balteiro and Campos, 2012) and television cosmetics commercials (Rodríguez Medina, 2016a), but the study of descriptions provided by the brands for their cosmetic products has received less attention in Spanish. This paper provides an analysis of facial cosmetics descriptions selected from a corpus collected in 2016 from four Spanish cosmetic brands. Language creativity exploiting both the use of English borrowings and the influence of the English language in some orthographical patterns related to word-formation processes in Spanish in this genre will be discussed. The proportion of the influence of the English language on this kind of texts may be an important factor in determining its socio-psychological effect on the target public; besides, the quantitative results will be compared with those obtained in our previous studies in the fields of tourism and computing. A qualitative analysis of a selection of examples from our corpus will be offered. The present study intends to illustrate the influence of the English language on the information consumers can read about cosmetic products.

His Lordship's -ship and the King of Golfdom. Against a purely functional analysis of suffixhood

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Baeskow
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Independent Model

For many decades there has been a consensus among linguists of various schools that derivational suffixes function not only to determine the word-class of the complex expressions they form, but also convey semantic information. The aspect of suffix-inherent meaning is ignored by representatives of a relatively new theoretical direction – Neo-Construction Grammar – who consider derivational suffixes to be either purely functional elements of the grammar or meaningless phonological realizations of abstract grammatical morphemes. The latter view is maintained by adherents of Distributed Morphology, who at the same time emphasize the importance of conceptual knowledge for derivational processes without attempting to define this aspect. The purpose of this study is first of all to provide support for the long-standing assumption that suffixes are inherently meaningful. The focus of interest is on the suffixes -ship, -dom and -hood. Data from Old English and Modern English (including neologisms) will show that these suffixes have developed rich arrays of meaning which cannot be structurally derived. Moreover, since conceptual knowledge is indeed an important factor for word-formation processes, a concrete, theory-independent model for the representation of the synchronically observable meaning components associated with -ship, -dom and -hood will be proposed.

Moral Formation in Christ, the Beautiful Beloved

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Loving Relationship ◽  
Falling In Love

Christ’s healing of humanity consists, crucially, in forming human beings for loving relationship with himself and others. In this respect, Christ also takes the role of the beautiful beloved. Believers become pilgrims by falling in love with the beautiful Christ by the initiative of the Holy Spirit, who cleanses their eyes to see him as beautiful and enkindles desire in their hearts. By desiring and loving the beautiful Christ, the believer is conformed to him and learns to walk his path. Desiring the beautiful Christ forms a believing community shaped aesthetically and morally for a particular way of life: pilgrimage to the heavenly homeland. Formation is both earthly and eschatological, for so too is the journey and the activity of the pilgrim.

scholarly journals Emergence and evolution of social networks through exploration of the Adjacent Possible space

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Ubaldi ◽  
Raffaella Burioni ◽  
Vittorio Loreto ◽  
Francesca Tria
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Clustering Coefficient ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Broad Distribution ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Dynamical Features ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
American Physical

AbstractThe interactions among human beings represent the backbone of our societies. How people establish new connections and allocate their social interactions among them can reveal a lot of our social organisation. We leverage on a recent mathematical formalisation of the Adjacent Possible space to propose a microscopic model accounting for the growth and dynamics of social networks. At the individual’s level, our model correctly reproduces the rate at which people acquire new acquaintances as well as how they allocate their interactions among existing edges. On the macroscopic side, the model reproduces the key topological and dynamical features of social networks: the broad distribution of degree and activities, the average clustering coefficient and the community structure. The theory is born out in three diverse real-world social networks: the network of mentions between Twitter users, the network of co-authorship of the American Physical Society journals, and a mobile-phone-calls network.

CONSOLIDATION POTENTIAL OF THE INTERNET COMMUNICATION, THE RUSSIAN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
RAISA BARASH ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Practical Result ◽  
Political Consolidation ◽  
Activity Awareness

Analyzing the spread of information technologies on social consolidation the author pays special attention to the study of the Russian situation when the wide spreading of the new media does not result into intensive political consolidation. The author notes that Internet and social networks have an undeniable potential for social influence because of intensive social interaction of numerous stakeholders. At the same time, the nominal potential of social networks as a mechanism of political communication and consolidation is low today. Wide online access does not lead to an increase of the interest to politics or social activity, awareness or subjectivity. The themes of Internet communication is extremely diverse and, most importantly, is rarely focused on a practical result or a long-term plan of socio-political reform of public policy.

Translanguaging sequel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eriko Sato
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Political Dispute ◽  
Japanese Translation

Abstract The paper examines the products of interlingual and intralingual translanguaging and qualitatively analyzes three origin-based lexical varieties in Japanese, wago (native Japanese words), kango (Sino-Japanese words), and gairaigo (foreign loanwords other than kango) in terms of how they have been complementing, competing against, or being in conflict with each other, how they engage word-formation processes as deep as morpheme-levels, and how they are perceived and manipulated by language users, including translators. This study shows that translanguaging has been practiced recursively and multi-directionally over a long period of time, yielding the phenomenon ‘translanguaging sequel’. The qualitative study of a Japanese translation of a Korean poem reveals a translator’s ideology-driven translanguaging practice that crosses not only interlingual but also intralingual boundaries, causing an international socio-political dispute. This study supports the view that translanguaging has been shaping and reshaping the norms of languages and language use. It also suggests the benefits of analyzing the products and traces of translanguaging in translated texts as well as the process of translanguaging during translation activities that can be promoted and implemented in language classrooms.

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