Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010

Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez , Paula Pérez Sobrino

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Abstract

The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between formal and semantic neological procedures in the coinage of COVID-19-related emerging realities. Our study is based on a survey conducted to elicit the spontaneous creation of neologisms in Spanish related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to name a set of pandemic-related objects presented to them in a set of pictures. Naming strategies resulted mostly from the intersection of metonyms with compounding and metaphors with syntagmation. Participants preferred metonymy-based strategies to name objects they have fewer clues to identify. On the other hand, objects resulting from the adaptation of pre-existing items were mostly named using metaphors.

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说出它的意思在用西班牙语命名新出现的流行对象时，形式和语义新程序之间的交叉点

本研究的目的是调查在创造与 COVID-19 相关的新现实时，形式新词程序与语义新词程序之间的关系。我们的研究基于一项调查，该调查旨在诱导人们自发创造与 COVID-19 大流行相关的西班牙语新词。参与者被要求为一组图片中出现的与大流行病相关的物体命名。命名策略主要来自于近义词与复合词的交叉以及隐喻与句法的交叉。学员们更倾向于以隐喻为基础的策略来命名他们没有太多线索可以识别的对象。另一方面，对已有物品进行改编后产生的物品大多使用隐喻来命名。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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