A Web of New Words : A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms
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Book Series
English Corpus Linguistics
ISBN-10
3631655789
ISBN-13
9783631655788
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 27th, 2015
Print length
278 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 15.70 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsLexicographyComputational linguisticsLiterary studies: from c 1900 -
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This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English neologisms in the online speech community. It strings together findings and assumptions from lexicological, sociolinguistic and cognitive research and supplements the existing theories with novel data-driven insights.
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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