A Web of New Words: A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms - Couverture rigide

Kerremans, Daphné

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3631655789 ISBN 13 : 9783631655788

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2015

Synopsis

This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English neologisms in the online speech community. The study answers the longstanding question of how and why some neologisms become part of the English lexicon and others do not. It strings together findings and assumptions from lexicological, sociolinguistic and cognitive research and supplements the existing theories with novel data-driven insights. For this purpose a webcrawler was developed, which extracted the occurrences of the neologisms under consideration from the Internet in monthly intervals. The book shows that the different courses conventionalization processes may take result from the interplay between speaker-based sociopragmatic accommodation-induced aspects and factors facilitating cognitive processing of novel linguistic material.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daphné Kerremans studied English Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Regensburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (both Germany). She holds a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where she works at the Chair of Modern English Linguistics. Her research interests include usage-based word-formation and lexicology, lexicography, corpus linguistics, cognitive sociolinguistics and semantics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631655789
• ISBN 13: 9783631655788
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible