ON SOME COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH NEOLOGISMS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2018.22.1.023Keywords:
neologism, onomasiology, cognitive approach, folk etymology, association, blending, conceptual blending theoryAbstract
The paper touches upon some issues connected with cognitive characteristics of English neologisms with special reference to the processes of generating a new linguistic sign. Some factors (such as different associations, folk etymology) which precondition the outer sound form of a newly emerging word are examined. Associations play a great role in the processes when a proper noun becomes a common noun – a phenomenon which is illustrated with the help of the descriptivist and the causal theories. Special attention is paid to blending as one of the most productive word-formation means in contemporary English in the light of conceptual blending theory, suggested by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner.
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