Teza de licenta - Neologisms in British Newspapers - ID:04032 - Volum 90 pagini

1. INTRODUCTION .......1

2. LANGUAGE OF NEWSPAPERS ........2
2.1 Characteristics of the newspaper language ........2
2.2 Journalistic style ......... 4
2.3 Broadsheets vs. tabloids .........6
2.4 The way the media are influential .......9

3. NEOLOGISMS .......10
3.1 Basic concepts ....10
3.1.1 Word ........ 10
3.1.2 Lexeme ......11
3.1.3 Neologism ........11
3.1.4 Nonce formation ......13
3.2 Lexicalization and institutionalization ......14
3.3 Centre and periphery theory .......15
3.4 Neologizing and its social context ..........16

4. MEANS OF VOCABULARY GROWTH ........18
4.1 Borrowing .......18
4.2 Changes of meaning ......20
4.2.1 Widening .......21
4.2.2 Narrowing ......23
4.2.3 Branching ........24
4.3 Transfer of meaning .........24
4.3.1 Metaphor .......24
4.3.2 Metonymy ......26
4.3.3 Synecdoche .......26

5. WORD-FORMATION PROCESSES........ 28
5.1 Basic concepts .........28
5.1.1 Creativity .........29
5.1.2 Productivity ..........30
5.2 “Minor” word-formation processes........31
5.2.1 Blending .......31
5.2.2 Clipping ........34
5.2.3 Acronyms ........35
5.2.4 Abbreviations ........37
5.2.5 Reduplicatives .......37
5.2.6 Word manufacture .....38
5.3 “Major” word-formation processes .......40
5.3.1 Compounding ........40
5.3.1.1 Compound nouns ......42
5.3.1.2 Compound adjectives ........44
5.3.1.3 Compound verbs .......44
5.3.1.4 Neo-classical compounds ........45
5.3.2 Derivation ........46
5.3.2.1 Prefixation .......48
5.3.2.2 Suffixation ....... 50
5.3.3 Conversion ......... 51
5.3.4 Backformation ........54

6. SELECTED DATA ........56
6.1 Methodology ..........56
6.2 Research and tendencies ..........57

7. CONCLUSIONS ..........65
RESUMÉ ......68
REFERENCES ........71
APPENDIX