Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men
To deepen on the study of the concept of neologicity, an exhaustive review of the literature was carried out. Once the different parameters related to this concept were isolated, we realized that some of them were also used to determine the communicative function of neologisms. For this reason, firs...
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| description | To deepen on the study of the concept of neologicity, an exhaustive review of the literature was carried out. Once the different parameters related to this concept were isolated, we realized that some of them were also used to determine the communicative function of neologisms. For this reason, first, we correlated the objective criteria to classify neologisms as prototypical of the denominative or the stylistic function with the parameters related to the neological quality. Second, we defined new criteria, both linguistic and chronological, to broaden the scope of our analysis. Afterwards, all the criteria were applied to a corpus of neologisms from newspaper articles and journalistic blogs in Spanish written by women and men. The results confirmed that neologisms with stylistic features tend to be more neological than denominative neologisms. Consequently, they are usually less frequent lexical units used in general or informal contexts. In addition, they tend to be the result of unproductive word formation rules that might contain subjective linguistic components and also tend to be more recent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-547a65582a76413887e239e42f4867c42023-11-19T11:35:36ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-07-018317510.3390/languages8030175Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and MenElisabet Llopart-Saumell0Paola Cañete-González1Institut de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, SpainDepartamento de Idiomas Extranjeros, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4030000, ChileTo deepen on the study of the concept of neologicity, an exhaustive review of the literature was carried out. Once the different parameters related to this concept were isolated, we realized that some of them were also used to determine the communicative function of neologisms. For this reason, first, we correlated the objective criteria to classify neologisms as prototypical of the denominative or the stylistic function with the parameters related to the neological quality. Second, we defined new criteria, both linguistic and chronological, to broaden the scope of our analysis. Afterwards, all the criteria were applied to a corpus of neologisms from newspaper articles and journalistic blogs in Spanish written by women and men. The results confirmed that neologisms with stylistic features tend to be more neological than denominative neologisms. Consequently, they are usually less frequent lexical units used in general or informal contexts. In addition, they tend to be the result of unproductive word formation rules that might contain subjective linguistic components and also tend to be more recent.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/175neologicityneological qualitynoveltygendercommunicative functionstylistic function |
| spellingShingle | Elisabet Llopart-Saumell Paola Cañete-González Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men Languages neologicity neological quality novelty gender communicative function stylistic function |
| title | Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men |
| title_full | Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men |
| title_fullStr | Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men |
| title_short | Are Stylistic Neologisms More Neological? A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Innovations of Women and Men |
| title_sort | are stylistic neologisms more neological a corpus based study of lexical innovations of women and men |
| topic | neologicity neological quality novelty gender communicative function stylistic function |
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