Occasionalisms in the language of modern media

Lychuk, Mariia and Levchenko, T. (2024) Occasionalisms in the language of modern media Теоретична та дидактична філологія: збірник наукових праць, 38. pp. 207-221. ISSN 2309-1517

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the language of mass media, in which one can quite often come across occasionalisms formed by various usual word-forming methods. In particular, it is said that, on the one hand, individually-authored new works express a subjective creative beginning, which is manifested in their uniqueness and «disposability», on the other hand, they enter into systemic connections with usually words and singlestructure new works, realizing meanings that are significant for the linguistic picture of the world in a particular period and are usuall transmitted in standard ways. It is noted that one of the striking signs of word-formation processes of the first third of the 21st century is the growth of nominal prefixation, suffixation, and stemming, and the increase in the activity of word-formation models that use prefixation or suffixation to create new words may be associated with certain intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors: an increase in the expressiveness of potential neologisms with prefixes is revealed, which probably reflects the desire of authors to draw attention to the word, the desire to be heard. One of the important problems associated with occasionalisms is raised – the question of the prospects for their further existence, because researchers suggest two possibilities for them, as, however, for neologisms in general: entering into active use and losing expressive coloring and novelty or preserving their status as a random phenomenon that has not entered into common usage. Since language is a living organism that functions according to its own laws, only time can answer this question. Attention is focused on the fact that this also explains the choice of the word-forming formant of occasionalism. Occasionalisms are most actively formed by interword overlap, contamination, and graphization, and the capabilities of graphic systems of different languages are actively involved, resulting in the formation of so-called «centaur words». It was found that the main part of occasionalisms in the collected linguistic material is represented by nouns, adjectives, verbs, less often – adverbs, pronouns and numerators are not fixed.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Occasionalisms; mass media language; prefixation; suffixation; stemming; expression.
Subjects: Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions: Факультет журналістики > Кафедра міжнародної журналістики
Depositing User: професор Марія Іванівна Личук
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2024 13:45
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2024 13:45
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50788

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