Khmelnytskyi National University

Department of Foreign Language Teaching Methods and Practice

Replenishment of the vocabulary.

Neologisms.

Presented by student of
PhAL-18
Strilets Katya
 A neologism is a newly coined word or phrase
or a new meaning for an existing word or a word
borrowed from another language.
Each new word has its author – the originator.
Bedroom Amazement
Eyeball
Eventful Laughable
 or
pheno
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or >
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ghetto
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> inner
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town/ci
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• e.g. to
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cowboy
Main ways of neologism development:
"to
drive
Semantic groupings of neologisms appeal to
such aspects as:
Teenage Higher
rs’ lingo Science e.g. society
e.g. eye-scanner e.g. dial-
Drugs! a-taxi

Social life Computeriz Linguistics

e.g. survivor ation e.g. PC e.g. MT

Criminalizati
on e.g.
stocking mask
 According to the way they
are formed neologisms are subdivided into:
Syntactical Phonological

Phonological neologis
ms are formed by
combining unique
combinations of
sounds, the so-
called artificial neolo
gisms e.g.
yecky/yucky "repulsiv
e", zizz "short sleep =
nap"
 Syntactical neologisms are divided
into morphological and phraseological.
Morphological Phraseological
(word-building) (forming word-groups)
neologisms are neologisms are new
compounds of affixed word-combinations e.g.
words of different talk'n chalk =
types, abreviations traditional method of
etc. e.g. teaching, fudge and
Gynobibliophobia dodge = avoidance of
(hatred to women- definite decisions,
writers), to catlick "to user-friendly =
wash the dishes convenient to use.
carelessly“.
 Several stages of a new word entering a
language:

Unstable Diffused Stable Dated

words words words words

Unstable words - extremely new, being

proposed, or being used only by a small
subculture (also known as protologisms).

Diffused words - having reached a significant

audience, but not yet having gained widespread
acceptance.
Stable words - having gained recognizable and
probably lasting acceptance.

Dated words - the point where the word has ceased

holding novelty and has passed into formal linguistic
acceptance, or become culturally dated in its use.

Most of them do not live long and don’t reach the

third and the fourth stage.
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