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- Title
Lexical innovation: cromulently embiggening a language.
- Authors
MacKenzie, Ian
- Abstract
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 nonnative speakers of English as a lingua franca, and highlight the similarities and differences in the ways they tend to coin words; consider to what extent the formation of new words by way of established processes or rules or schemas should be thought of as morphological productivity rather than individual creativity; and finally look at the processes by which neologisms can, potentially, be diffused.
- Subjects
NEW English words; BRITISH authors; TELEVISION writers; LINGUA francas; PERSON schemas; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2014, Issue 27, p91
- ISSN
0214-4808
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14198/raei.2014.27.06