FROM BREXITEERS TO BROFLAKES AND COVIDIOTS: HOW PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES OF BLENDING FUNCTION
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https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2020.24.1.003Keywords:
blending, compound blends, word-formation, neologism, semantic and pragmatic valency, political discourse, social mediaAbstract
The paper touches upon the idea that blending in Modern English might be (and in fact is) a productive means of word-formation, hence a limitless source of neologisms, due to their flexibility, and semantic and pragmatic valency. This type of language is an unavoidable consequence of the fast technological advances, political, economic and social changes that are documented in English as an international language of technology, negotiations, cultural issues, etc.
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2020-06-25
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