In this paper I analyse the neologisms used in four dystopian novels –Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013)– from a morphological point of view. Lexical innovation is accounted for in the light of three criteria: types of neologisms according to morphological analysis, fields of use, and motivations for their creation. It is concluded that the shared reasons behind the use of neologisms built by means of word-formation devices (derivation, composition and shortening) are basically pragmatic and manipulative, and that, as part of discourse, the new lexical items thus created become efficient tools, since they provid...
This article explores the notion of "author neologism." The new neologism can be divided into nomina...
En este artículo estudiamos un tipo de neologismo, al que llamamos neologismo inducido, e intentamos...
In the February 1974 issue of Word Ways, I presented a review of A Dictionary of New English, edited...
This study deals with word formation and translation of neologisms in dystopian literature on the ex...
Given the importance of novel formations in science and speculative fiction, the aim of this paper i...
In my analysis of popular dystopian literature, I focus on the ways in which language, primarily neo...
This study deals with the word formation and translation of neologisms in dystopian literature based...
AbstractThis paper considers various morphological processes involved in the creation of pleiosyllab...
This article explores the notion of "author neologism." The new neologism can be divided into nomina...
One of the central and current problem of modern text linguistics today is the problem of investigat...
Throughout history some writers have coined neologisms in their literary works for diverse creative ...
In literature, writers have the liberty to deviate from linguistic norms under a principle known as ...
This note addresses the topic of Judith Bridges’s focus article, namely -splain neologisms such as m...
In this paper, we will focus on the difficulties linked with a specific type of lexical creation: we...
The article is devoted to such a layer of vocabulary as neologisms, which are one of the most produc...
This article explores the notion of "author neologism." The new neologism can be divided into nomina...
En este artículo estudiamos un tipo de neologismo, al que llamamos neologismo inducido, e intentamos...
In the February 1974 issue of Word Ways, I presented a review of A Dictionary of New English, edited...
This study deals with word formation and translation of neologisms in dystopian literature on the ex...
Given the importance of novel formations in science and speculative fiction, the aim of this paper i...
In my analysis of popular dystopian literature, I focus on the ways in which language, primarily neo...
This study deals with the word formation and translation of neologisms in dystopian literature based...
AbstractThis paper considers various morphological processes involved in the creation of pleiosyllab...
This article explores the notion of "author neologism." The new neologism can be divided into nomina...
One of the central and current problem of modern text linguistics today is the problem of investigat...
Throughout history some writers have coined neologisms in their literary works for diverse creative ...
In literature, writers have the liberty to deviate from linguistic norms under a principle known as ...
This note addresses the topic of Judith Bridges’s focus article, namely -splain neologisms such as m...
In this paper, we will focus on the difficulties linked with a specific type of lexical creation: we...
The article is devoted to such a layer of vocabulary as neologisms, which are one of the most produc...
This article explores the notion of "author neologism." The new neologism can be divided into nomina...
En este artículo estudiamos un tipo de neologismo, al que llamamos neologismo inducido, e intentamos...
In the February 1974 issue of Word Ways, I presented a review of A Dictionary of New English, edited...