Naslov
English Blends with a Geographic Component

Autori
Fabijanić, Ivo ; Malenica, Frane

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Knjižica sažetaka / - Novi Sad : Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, 2012, 23.-23.

Skup
Jezici i kulture u vremenu i prostoru 2

Mjesto i datum
Novi Sad, Srbija, 24.11.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Demonstracija

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
English; blending; non-morphemic word-formation process; geographic splinter; multi-level approach; analysis

Sažetak
Blending is not any more seen as an unimportant or peripheral word-formation process in English. It has become more common and is encountered in media every day. Blends are mainly witty and involve word play. They occur in advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles. In advertisments they are intended to be memorable while in speech they fall quickly in disuse. This research deals with orthographic, morphological, formational and semantic characteristics of English blends with geographic components (splinters). Analyses will be carried out on the corpus of approximately 120 blends and among different questions to be answered, the following are the most important ones: Which splinter contributes more to a blend and why?, How important is a geographic splinter in understanding the meaning of a blend?, Is the study of blends with a geographic splinter comparable and compatible with the findings of previous studies which dealt with blends in general?. Along with the analyses of blends on different linguistic levels, we will also try to present a possible solution of their (blends) lexicographic presentation based on Ingrid Fandrych's theoretical framework (2004), i.e. the interdisciplinary or a multi-level approach for the analysis of non-morphemic word-formation processes. It involves semantic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic criteria, i.e. their structural, cognitive and functional aspects.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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