The problem of studying neologisms and their influence on the ecology of language

Бесплатный доступ

The article raises the issues of neology and ecolinguistics. The authors specify the criteria of ecolinguistic approach to studying neologisms based on ecolinguistic monitoring which helps to elicit factors that influence the formation of new words, spheres in which they function in language as well as to define the type of new words and number of loanwords among them. The data under analysis is compiled by about 3 000 new words that appeared in English and Dutch in the last three decades. The authors elicit the main changes in the ecology of the Dutch language on different levels in the stated time frame together with the factors that motivate the formation of neologisms. Among extralinguistic factors the authors list such determinants as the emergence of new realia; scientific and technical advancement; globalization and development of the Internet. To intralinguistic factors the following are referred: linguistic economy; expressiveness of linguistic means; systematization of the vocabulary; unification of linguistic signs; conversion and the shift in stylistic usage of the words can also generate neologisms. Future development of the ecolinguistic approach in neology will help to track the evolution of modern national language and preserve its ecolinguistic balance. The research results can be used in language education, lexicographic practice or state language policy.

Еще

Neologism, ecolinguistic approach, ecolinguistic monitoring, loanword, language ecology

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/14970252

IDR: 14970252   |   DOI: 10.15688/jvolsu2.2015.1.8

Список литературы The problem of studying neologisms and their influence on the ecology of language

  • Booij G., Marle J. van. Yearbook of Morphology 2003. New York, Springer, 2010. 279 p.
  • Cohen H. Coca versus Cola: Verschillen tussen Nederland en Belgie in het gebruik van Engelse leenworden. Dordrecht, De Nieuwe Taalgids, 1996. 160 p.
  • Croft W. Social Evolution and Language Change. Manchester, University of Manchester, 2007. 39 p.
  • Gerritsen M., Korzilius H., Meurs F. van. English in Dutch Commercials: Not Understood and not Appreciated. Journal of Advertising Research, 2000, no. 40 (4), pp. 17-31.
  • Ionova S.V. Osnovnye napravleniya ekolingvisticheskikh issledovaniy: zarubezhnyy i otechestvennyy opyt . Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie , 2010, no. 1 (11), pp. 86-93.
  • Koenen L., Rik S. Peptalk: De Engelse woordenschat van het Nederlands. 2nd ed. Amsterdam, Nigh en Van Ditmar, 1992. 188 p.
  • Nejjari W., Gerritsen M., Haagen M. van der. Responses to Dutch-Accented English. World Englishes, 2012, vol. 31 (2), pp. 248-268.
  • Payack JJ.P. A Million Words and Counting. How Global English Is Rewriting the World. New York, Citadel, 2008. 224 p.
  • Rets I.V. Izuchenie novoy leksiki niderlandskogo yazyka v kontekste globalizatsii . Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, 2014, no. 6 (36), pp. 149-152.
  • Rets I.V. Natsionalno-kulturnaya spetsifika novoy leksiki niderlandskogo i angliyskogo yazykov . Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie , 2014, no. 1 (20), pp. 66-70.
  • Shamne N.L. Ekolingvisticheskoe issledovanie yazykovogo prostranstva polietnicheskogo regiona . Izvestiya Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta. Seriya "Filologicheskie nauki", 2011, no. 8, pp. 143-146.
  • Shamne N.L., Shovgenin A.N. Teoreticheskie osnovy postroeniya algoritma ekolingvisticheskogo monitoringa . Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie , 2010, no. 2 (12), pp. 153-161.
  • Sijs N. van. Loanwords in the World's Languages. A Comparative Handbook. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2009, pp. 338-360.
Еще
Статья научная