The Latest Trends In English Word-Formation

Szymanek, Bogdan

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3596-9_17

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“…This hypothesis certainly deserves further exploration. Perhaps we should leave open the possibility that the processes of word formation in psychology may be as many and various as they are in other settings (e.g., Szymanek, 2005). The reasons why each new word in any subject has the characteristics that it does may depend on the specific context in which the word is invented.…”

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Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Benjafield¹

2014

History of Psychology

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The vocabulary of Anglophone psychology is shared with many other subjects. Previous research using the Oxford English Dictionary has shown that the subjects having the most words in common with psychology are biology, chemistry, computing, electricity, law, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, pathology, philosophy, and physics. The present study presents a database of the vocabularies of these 12 subjects that is similar to one previously constructed for psychology, enabling the histories of the vocabularies of these subjects to be compared with each other as well as with psychology. All subjects have a majority of word senses that are metaphorical. However, psychology is not among the most metaphorical of subjects, a distinction belonging to computing, linguistics, and mathematics. Indeed, the history of other subjects shows an increasing tendency to recycle old words and give them new, metaphorical meanings. The history of psychology shows an increasing tendency to invent new words rather than metaphorical senses of existing words. These results were discussed in terms of the degree to which psychology's vocabulary remains unsettled in comparison with other subjects. The possibility was raised that the vocabulary of psychology is in a state similar to that of chemistry prior to Lavoisier.

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Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Benjafield¹

2014

History of Psychology

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“…(4), derivational under-marking occurs when parts of the base formal material are not present in the derived word. This is typical of word formation process types across languages, as the examples in English, French, Italian, and Dutch show: back-formation (12), blending (13), and cross-formation (14, 15); (on back-and cross-formation, see e.g.Adams 1981;Becker 1993;Nagano 2007;Shimamura 1983;Szymanek 2005; on blending, see Dressler 2000; Fradin 2000; Warren 1990 among others). DD n:1 also concerns derivation from a multi-lexical base, where only one part of this basis surfaces in the derivative (16)(Namer 2013).…”

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Discrepancy between form and meaning  in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in French

Hathout¹,

Namer²

2014

Morphology and Meaning

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Most word formation (WF) theories assume that derivatives tend in general towards canonicity, that is one-to-one correspondence between form and meaning and thus full morpho-semantic transparency. However, formmeaning mismatches actually have a widespread coverage, both in terms of languages and WF rules. These mainly fall into two types of discrepancy: over-marking and under-marking. In this paper we propose a classification of these deviations with a distinction between a derivational level and a lexical one. We illustrate this classification with examples from French and other languages: English, Italian and Dutch. Then, we sketch a unified analysis of these deviations, within a word-based framework. We propose to analyse the relative importance of canonicity and discrepancies in WF from the perspective of the interaction between the speaker and the hearer.

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“…Despite the distinction established previously, lexicological process is now considered to be at least partially rule-related or rulegoverned (Hohenhaus, 2007). According to Szymanek (2005), one of the most significant elements of new advancements in the area of word-formation is the appearance of new complex terms formed according to some well-established and fruitful patterns. These derivational neologisms encompass key word-formation processes in use in English, such as affixation, compounding, conversion, and abbreviation.…”

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“Battle” between languages over the public area in the tourism destination city of Bali: lexicological and linguistic landscape perspectives

Setiawan¹,

Leliana²,

Ratyaningrum³

et al. 2023

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In public areas, exposure to various languages is also beginning to be easily found in tourist cities. As far as observation, research on the linguistic landscape (hereinafter LL) in the public area is still not widely carried out, let alone lexicology is added. This study aims to: (1) know the existence of languages in the public domain as LL in tourist destinations in Bali, (2) reveal considerations that underlie the use of languages in LL in the public area, (3) explore society's perceptions towards the use of languages in LL in the public area, and (4) show the implications of the phenomenon of the use of languages in the public domain. This research uses qualitative methods through observation, interviews, and documentation. The object of the study is language exposure in public areas of tourist destinations in Bali. There are (4) four findings obtained, namely: (1) Balinese occupies the fourth position among the languages displayed in the public domain, and the top-down category gets a higher percentage of the bottom-up category, (2) Affixation is one of the lexicological processes found in LL and it was predominantly monolingual, (3) Most participants stated that the use of a variety of languages in LL is for revealing their identity, (4) As readers of LL, the society stated that the variety of languages in LL (Indonesian, English, Balinese, Mandarin, and Mixed Languages) is important to display because they know the variety of Languages, and (5) society has a prediction that Balinese will not continue to develop and disappear due to the high intensity of foreign language use in the tourism sector in Bali.

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The Latest Trends In English Word-Formation

Cited by 20 publications

References 17 publications

Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Discrepancy between form and meaning  in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in French

“Battle” between languages over the public area in the tourism destination city of Bali: lexicological and linguistic landscape perspectives

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The Latest Trends In English Word-Formation

Cited by 20 publications

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Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

Discrepancy between form and meaning in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in French

“Battle” between languages over the public area in the tourism destination city of Bali: lexicological and linguistic landscape perspectives

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Discrepancy between form and meaning  in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in French