scholarly journals Twitterverse: The birth of new words

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Olga Klymenko
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Related Word ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Labelling Function ◽  
Powerful Mechanism ◽  
The Way

New words are continuously being coined on Twitter, which is regarded as a means of creating and distributing new words, concepts and ideas. Our research focuses on the way Twitter’s apt naming has become one of the richest sources of brand-related word-formation. The current study has identified various productive patterns of new Twitter word-formation, such as affixation, compounding, blending, abbreviation and the powerful mechanism of lexical analogy. We have also identified the most common models used in coining new units of each type. The creation of new Twitter words has various functions and effects: establishing a closer social connection; jocular/mocking function; novelty and originality; desire to follow fashion; and denominative/labelling function. We conclude that in the era of an ever-growing amount of data, the popularity of Twitter has become a breeding ground for new brand-related words that have enriched the modern English vocabulary.

scholarly journals ON EFIK PREFIXING MORPHOLOGY

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Eyo Offiong Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Vowel Harmony ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Root Element ◽  
New Words ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
The Creation

Prefixation is a grammatical devise that involves the attachment of a bound morpheme to the left of a root element or stem. It functions to signal certain grammatical relationships involving categories like tense, negation, person, number, and aspect. It can also trigger off the creation of new words from existing ones. The focus of this paper is to analyse the forms and structure of Efik prefixes in relation to the different phonological and morphosyntactic operations they can signal in the language. The paper also examines the various word formation strategies involving prefixation in the language. The basic assumption, however, is that the structure of Efik prefixes vary according to agreement, and is determined by the principle of vowel harmony. The study discovers that Efik prefixes have systematic and rule-governed structures and that certain conditions, such as the phonology of the stem, the stem’s lexical category and the semantic value of prefixes stipulate their position. We wish to interpret the following abbreviations in order to facilitate our analyses: Adv(erb), Asp(ect), Aux(illiary), Conj(unction), Fut(ure tense), Mod(ality), Neg(ation), N(oun), NP (Noun Phrase), Pres(ent tense), PT(Past tense), Pro(noun), Pfx (Prefix) SC (Subject Concord), Spec(ifier), Tn (tense) and V(erb). 

scholarly journals Shifting the system of Indonesian word formation: the study of morphology and sociolinguistics of acronyms, blending, and clipping

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Zaim
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
New Words ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Formation System ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

The general guidelines of Indonesian word formation as annexed in appendix II of thereference standard of the Indonesian Grammar has not yet accommodated theIndonesian word formation system used by the Indonesian speakers today.Meanwhile, a new system of word formation began to emerge and the old paradigmshift in conjunction with the development of science and technology, and the changeof social, cultural, and political paradigm. As a result, the reference standard ofIndonesian grammar is no longer adequate to understand the system of the formationof the new words. Morphological studies, which analyze the internal structure of thewords can be used as a theoretical foundation to address the issues of the Indonesianword formation. From the other side, sociolinguistic studies, which analyze the link oflanguage with the language speakers in the community, can give meaning to the wordformation shift. This article discusses (1) the morphological shift of the Indonesianword formation system of acronyms, blending, and clipping, (2) the sociolinguisticfunctions of the word formation, and (3) the productivity of the word formationsystem. The study of the shift of word formation system revealed a shift in the way ofthinking and the way of looking at social, cultural, and political problems of theIndonesian speakers nowadays.

scholarly journals SHIFTING THE SYSTEM OF INDONESIAN WORD FORMATION; THE STUDY ON MORPHOLOGY AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF ACRONYMS, BLENDING, AND CLIPPING

Humanus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
M Zaim
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
New Words ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Formation System ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
The Way

The general guidelines of Indonesian word formation as annexed in appendix II of the reference standard of the Indonesian Grammar has not yet accommodated the Indonesian word formation system used by the Indonesian speakers today. Meanwhile, a new system of word formation began to emerge and the old paradigm shift in conjunction with the development of science and technology, and the change of social, cultural, and political paradigm. As a result, the reference standard of Indonesian grammar is no longer adequate to understand the system of the formation of the new words. Morphological studies, which analyze the internal structure of the words can be used as a theoretical foundation to address the issues of the Indonesian word formation. From the other side, sociolinguistic studies, which analyze the link of language with the language speakers in the community, can give meaning to the word formation shift. This article discusses (1) the morphological shift of the Indonesian word formation system of acronyms, blending, and clipping, (2) the sociolinguistic functions of the word formation, and (3) the productivity of the word formation system. The study of the shift of word formation system revealed a shift in the way of thinking and the way of looking at social, cultural, and political problems of the Indonesian speakers nowadays. Keywords: word formation, language shift, morphology, sociolinguistics, blending, clipping, acronymPERGESERAN SISTIM PEMBENTUKAN KATA BAHASA INDONESIA:KAJIAN MORFOLOGIS DAN SOSIOLINGUISTIK AKRONIM, BLENDING, DAN KLIPING AbstrakPedoman umum pembentukan kata Bahasa Indonesia pada Lampiran II Tata Bahasa Baku Bahasa Indonesia belum mengakomodasi sistem pembentukan kata Bahasa Indonesia yang digunakan oleh penutur Indonesia saat ini. Sementara itu, sistem pembentukan kata baru mulai bermunculan menggeser paradigma lama bersamaan dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, serta perubahan paradigma sosial, budaya, dan politik. Akibatnya, standar acuan tata bahasa Indonesia sudah tidak memadai lagi untuk memahami sistem pembentukan kata baru. Kajian morfologi, yang menganalisa struktur internal kata dapat dijadikan landasan teoritis untuk mengatasi permasalahan pembentukan kata bahasa Indonesia. Dari sisi lain, kajian sosiolinguistik, yang menganalisa hubungan bahasa dengan penutur bahasa di masyarakat, bisa memberi makna pada pergeseran pembentukan kata ini. Artikel ini membahas (1) pergeseran morfologis sistem pembentukan kata dalam bahasa Indonesia pada bentuk akronim, blending, dan kliping, (2) fungsi sosiolinguistik dari pembentukan kata, dan (3) produktivitas sistem pembentukan kata. Kajian tentang pergeseran sistem pembentukan kata mengungkapkan adanya pergeseran cara berpikir dan cara melihat masalah sosial, budaya, dan politik para penutur Bahasa Indonesia saat ini.Kata kunci: pembentukan kata, pergeseran bahasa, morfologi, sosiolinguistik, blending, kliping, akronim

scholarly journals Enriching Learners’ Vocabulary by Means of Derivative Word-Building Patterns

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1 (3)) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Lili Karapetyan
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
New Words ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Communicative Strategy

The English vocabulary has increased greatly in more than 1500 years of development. It is more extensive than that of any other language in the world. Certain processes have led to the creation of many new words as well as to the establishment of patterns for further expansion. Among these processes are affixation, compounding and conversion, which are the three main types of word-formation characteristic of the English language.Since there are few practical rules of compounding and conversion, it would be reasonable to focus on affixation, derivative word-building patterns in particular. Derivative word-building patterns are likely to develop the learners’ receptive and reproductive skills. With the receptive skills the learners make informed guesses about the meaning of unknown items, thus enriching their potential vocabulary. In terms of reproductive skills knowledge of some productive word-building patterns serve to widen the learners’ creative abilities. This can also be viewed as a communicative strategy.

scholarly journals Dokonania profesor Aleksandry Cieślikowej w zakresie słowotwórstwa onomastycznego

Onomastica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Biolik
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

The article presents the achievements of professor Aleksandra Cieślikowa in the field of word-formation of proper names. The most important issues concerning the creation of anthroponyms in the Old Polish era selected from monographs and scientific articles are detailed. These issues include the problems of motivation in onomastic word-formation, the onimization process and the way of describing non-derivatized words by word formation and the participation of paradigmatic derivation in the emergence of Old Polish personal names. The views of Aleksandra Cieślikowa regarding Old Polish anthroponymy contributed to the development of onomastic word-formation, an integral part of the grammar of proper names and gave methodological foundations for the description of Old Polish personal names from a synchronic perspective.

scholarly journals AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROCESSES OF LEXICAL EXPANSION IN CURRENT ENGLISH

Verbum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Roma Kriaučiūnienė ◽  
Vilija Sangailaitė
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Words ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Forming Tools ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The current paper focuses on the study of novel lexical items, i. e. the processes involved in the making of new words, in order to discover which methods contribute to the expansion of the current English lexicon. The research is based on the new words coined since 2004 which are included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online (ensuring that the items in the sample cover various semantic fields, are of diverse origins, and all are already accepted into the working vocabulary). Two objectives are completed to explore the subject and achieve its aim: 1) to establish the concept of new words and to overview the processes of lexical expansion in the English language, and 2) to determine which methods are employed and which are absent in the creation of new words in current English by analyzing the novel lexical items retrieved from the OED Online. Quantitative and qualitative methods are applied in this study. The results indicate that the concept of new words is not straightforward in the English language. More often than not, the terms neologisms and new words are used synonymously to refer to recent, novel lexical items recognized and used by the language community. English has an extensive inventory of word-forming tools classified into these distinct categories: word-formation, semantic change, borrowing, and other; each further subdivided into various processes. Overall, the subtypes of word-formation – derivation, shortening and compounding – are used the most in the creation of recent additions to the lexicon. Predominantly, the findings are consistent with the tendencies of lexical expansion observed in previous studies.

scholarly journals Word Forming Models of Everyday Talish Vocabulary

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Alexandr Umnyashkin ◽  
Rustamkhon A. Shodiev
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
New Words ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

To trace the genesis and historical development of Talish affixes, we have conducted an analysis of different mechanisms of the creation of new words. The lexicological basis that we selected for our research was Talish everyday vocabulary, which contains, for historical reasons, the largest number of archaisms and includes the most ancient layers of the lexicon. We have also conducted an etymological analysis and cited examples from ancient, middle, and modern Iranian languages and several other Indo-European languages. Therefore, as our research has shown, semantic and formal changes of word-forming and form-forming affixes in Talish that take part in the formation of everyday lexicon primarily deserve close attention. The material above is a major interest in studying the history of the development of the Talish language.  It also testifies to the need for a detailed and more in-depth analysis of mechanisms of word-formation in lexis linked to the names of different household items.

Potential of Word Creation in Dayly Communication

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Л. Плотникова ◽  
L. Plotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Word Production ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Speech Situation

In article the examples of word creation recorded in the daily speech are analyzed, structural, semantic and communicative-cognitive features of speech innovations are described. Process of creating of lexical neoplasms is regarded as a linguistic and creative process aimed at the creation of the necessary in this speech situation of the word. New words are distinguished by a variety of word-formation models. The paper notes the most productive derivational affixes and methods of word formation. Results of the linguistic experiment made it possible to draw certain conclusions about the features of the formation of new words and the role of words-stimuli in the process of word production.

Attention Sustainability Impact on Social Status in the Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Stanislava Varadinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way ◽  
Positive Environment

The attention sustainability and its impact of social status in the class are current issues concerning the field of education are the reasons for delay in assimilating the learning material and early school dropout. Behind both of those problems stand psychological causes such as low attention sustainability, poor communication skills and lack of positive environment. The presented article aims to prove that sustainability of attention directly influences the social status of students in the class, and hence their overall development and the way they feel in the group. Making efforts to increase students’ attention sustainability could lead to an increase in the social status of the student and hence the creation of a favorable and positive environment for the overall development of the individual.

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