THE ROLE OF OCCASIONAL WORDS IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Authors

  • Grisha GASPARYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2018.22.1.003

Keywords:

occasional (nonce) words, economy principle, interpersonal communication, coinage of new words, encoding-decoding of a message, needs of communication

Abstract

Nonce (occasional) words have mainly been studied as means to solve immediate problems of communication in spoken language and as stylistic devices in written language. Obviously, little attention has been paid to their specific role in oral communication while the research of occasional words in real interpersonal communication reveals the dynamic tendency of language development. The present paper is an attempt to reveal structural, semantic and pragmatic features of occasional words taken from live communication. It is based on the study of a set of occasional words that reveal the daily changes in the language and the role of those words in oral speech.

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Published

2021-12-16

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (24) (2018)

Section

Linguistics

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