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Social Networks of Lexical Innovation. Investigating the Social Dynamics of Diffusion of Neologisms on Twitter [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Societies continually evolve and speakers use new words to talk about innovative products and practices. While most lexical innovations soon fall into disuse, others spread successfully and become part of the lexicon.
Quirin Würschinger
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Lexical innovation and the periphery of language [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021 Lexical innovations (e.g., zero-derivations coined on the fly by a speaker) seem to bear semantic content. Yet, such expressions cannot bear semantic content as a function of the conventions of meaning in force in the language, since they are not part of its lexicon.
Luca Gasparri
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“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 This sociolinguistic study explores lexical innovations and variation in the lexemes of Nigerian English formed during the COVID-19Pandemic. The emergence and spread of the virus have significantly altered the societal norm to becoming what is called the
Oluwateniola Kupolati +2 more
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The Boundaries of Lexical Innovation within a Question-Defined Semantic Cohort
Open Linguistics, 2014 This study explores the amount of lexical innovation (hapax legomena or non repeated words) during a question-led (i.e. semi spontaneous) spoken word production task. Native adult non-impaired Spanish speakers (n = 8) were asked the same question 8 times
Carvajal Camilo Andres Bonilla
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Lexical innovation: cromulently embiggening a language [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2014 In this article I look at the main ways of making new English words, and at the different types of neologisms this produces; consider various categories of people who coin them, including famous authors and television scriptwriters as well as anonymous ...
MacKenzie, Ian
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ENJEUX ENVIRONNEMENTAUX ET INNOVATION LEXICALE. LE DOMAINE DE LA MOBILITÉ (ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND LEXICAL INNOVATION. THE MOBILITY FIELD) [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2023 One of the major issues of today is the climate emergency. The European Union's goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and become climate neutral affect most areas of the economy, especially transport, where critical transformations are ...
Andra-Teodora PORUMB
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The Nonce Words - Obscure Elements of Interpersonal Communication [PDF]
Philologia, 2023 In this article, we aim to examine the process of understanding and interpreting nonce words in the context of interpersonal communication. The key conditions for the process of decoding these lexical units are outlined and the types of context relevant ...
Lina CABAC
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The Introduction of English-Induced Neologisms in Spanish Tweets: A Case-Study on covidiota
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota, into the Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus of tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark the word
Franziska Kailich
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Languages, 2022 In Catalan, -isme ‘-ism’, -itis, and -metre ‘-meter’ create new words that do not follow the WFRs described in grammar books and dictionaries. As a result, these lexical innovations, such as panxacontentisme (panxacontent ‘carefree’ + -ism ‘-ism ...
Elisabet Llopart-Saumell
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French Lexical Innovation in Moroccan Mediated Interactions
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2021 The French language in Morocco seems to be an evolving research field for linguists and sociolinguists. In everyday chats, Moroccan speakers use a particular lexicon of French on a formal and informal semantic level without much concern for conformity ...
Hicham Mahtane
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