Current Hungarian neologisms in the process of linguistic change: possibilities of analysis
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2019.1.21Keywords:
neologism, linguistic change, semantic-stylistic analysis, metonymy, metaphor, conceptual integrationAbstract
The present paper analyses the semantic and stylistic makeup of current Hungarian neologisms in the process of linguistic change, in a functional-cognitive framework. The aim of the analyses is (i) to present case studies of the possibility of a semantic and stylistic analysis of neologisms of diverse grammatical structures based on examples collected by the author; (ii) to explore the possibilities of presenting linguistic change in general and neologisms in particular in the process of education, and (iii) to give examples of the mental processes that language users exhibit while using neologisms, taken from relevant data gleaned from questionnaires administered in a number of different years, and in organic unity with the analyses offered previously. The paper illustrates the analyses by graphical representations in terms of the theory of conceptual integration (blending). The content of mental spaces as represented in the figures is determined on the basis of participants’ answers in the questionnaire studies.
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