We propose to elucidate the internal mechanisms of the dynamic process of lexicogenesis, with special emphasis on the term ‘feminazi’ (recently coined in Spanish from the English language). It is a portmanteau that, by integrating the words ‘feminist’ and ‘Nazi’, a new word with a strong pejorative sense is elaborated. This new word is frequently used in different areas, especially in the polemic forums of social networks. Due to its pervasive ideological connotations, a sort of sociolectal isogloss has been built: while a group of speakers considers it a poisonous portmanteau that deserves banishment from the idiomatic use because it inserts itself into a hate speech, another group of speakers considers it to be basically adequate. From th...
Drawing on the Corpus of The Dictionary of Science and Technology in the Renaissance (DICTER), this ...
The relations between lexicon and semantics are still a linguistic field relatively unexplored in co...
In this paper I argue for the relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic framework as the basis for an ad...
El propósito del presente artículo es dilucidar los entresijos del dinámico proceso de lexicogénesis...
Nuestro trabajo se ocupa de la sinestesia lingüística (selección de lexemas en el sintagma que conll...
Studies on languages have undergone a similar evolution to that of all the sciences: in the early da...
La autora expone suscintamente el significado de la «palabra» a través de la historia. La palabra es...
El lenguaje científico emplea para conformar su caudal léxico diversos recursos que pueden clasifica...
One of the inevitable linguistic operations is that of lexical access, which easily allows us to und...
The word ‘albur’ comes from the Hispanic Arabic ‘albúri’, used to designate the mullet (fish). Albei...
La composición es un proceso de formación de palabras, cuya productividad se sustenta en la creación...
Es un hecho indudable que las lenguas cambian con el paso del tiempo, adaptándose a las necesidades ...
La lucha por la hegemonía en el campo del lenguaje parece haberse convertido en objeto de análisis l...
This paper concerns the process of coining words like “brasiguaio”, “eurocrata” and “diciopédia”, wh...
In the present work a semantic and diachronic analysis of the term camarada (‘comrade’) is carried o...
Drawing on the Corpus of The Dictionary of Science and Technology in the Renaissance (DICTER), this ...
The relations between lexicon and semantics are still a linguistic field relatively unexplored in co...
In this paper I argue for the relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic framework as the basis for an ad...
El propósito del presente artículo es dilucidar los entresijos del dinámico proceso de lexicogénesis...
Nuestro trabajo se ocupa de la sinestesia lingüística (selección de lexemas en el sintagma que conll...
Studies on languages have undergone a similar evolution to that of all the sciences: in the early da...
La autora expone suscintamente el significado de la «palabra» a través de la historia. La palabra es...
El lenguaje científico emplea para conformar su caudal léxico diversos recursos que pueden clasifica...
One of the inevitable linguistic operations is that of lexical access, which easily allows us to und...
The word ‘albur’ comes from the Hispanic Arabic ‘albúri’, used to designate the mullet (fish). Albei...
La composición es un proceso de formación de palabras, cuya productividad se sustenta en la creación...
Es un hecho indudable que las lenguas cambian con el paso del tiempo, adaptándose a las necesidades ...
La lucha por la hegemonía en el campo del lenguaje parece haberse convertido en objeto de análisis l...
This paper concerns the process of coining words like “brasiguaio”, “eurocrata” and “diciopédia”, wh...
In the present work a semantic and diachronic analysis of the term camarada (‘comrade’) is carried o...
Drawing on the Corpus of The Dictionary of Science and Technology in the Renaissance (DICTER), this ...
The relations between lexicon and semantics are still a linguistic field relatively unexplored in co...
In this paper I argue for the relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic framework as the basis for an ad...