Name: predicting new words,the secrets of their success (en Inglés)
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Author: Metcalf, Allan
ISBN: 9780618130085

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predicting new words,the secrets of their success (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Allan Metcalf

Editorial

Mariner Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

206

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.2 x 11.9 x 1.4 cm

Peso

0.26 kg.

ISBN

061813008X

ISBN13

9780618130085

Categorías

Sociolingüística
Lexicografía

predicting new words,the secrets of their success (en Inglés)

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Have you ever aspired to gain linguistic immortality by making up a word? Many people -- such famous writers as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Dr. Seuss, along with many lesser-knowns -- have coined new words that have endured. But most of the new words people put forward fail to find favor. Why are some new words adopted, while others are ignored? Allan Metcalf explores this question in his fascinating look at new-word creation. In surveying past coinages and proposed new words, Metcalf discerns lessons for linguistic longevity. He shows us, for instance, why the humorist Gelett Burgess succeeded in contributing the words blurb and bromide to the language but failed to win anyone over to bleesh or diabob. Metcalf examines terms invented to describe political causes and social phenomena (silent majority, Gen-X), terms coined in books (edge city, Catch-22), brand names and words derived from them (aspirin, Ping-Pong), and words that derive from misunderstandings (cherry, kudo). He develops a scale for predicting the success of newly coined words and uses it to foretell which emerging words will outlast the twenty-first century. In this highly original work, Metcalf shows us how to spin syllabic straw into linguistic gold.