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Sánchez Fajardo, Fajardo, José A. ,
Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English / / José A. Sánchez Fajardo. - Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2022]. - 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : : il. - (Studies in language companion series (SLCS), ; volume 222). - Includes bibliographical references and index. - URL: https://library.dvfu.ru/lib/document/SK_ELIB/B1B44DC0-89C1-4DB4-83C9-D7E6DF58E133
. - ISBN 9789027258229 (electronic book). - ISBN 9027258228 (electronic book)
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2022).
Параллельные издания: Print version: : Sánchez Fajardo, José A. Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]. - ISBN 9789027210609
Содержание:
Pejoration and beyond. What is pejoration? -- Pejoration at the interface of semantics and pragmatics -- A cross-linguistic interpretation of pejoratives -- A two-dimensional analysis of pejorative lexis -- Pejoratives: What for? -- Pejoration and X-phemisms -- Euphemisms as neutralizers of pejorative meaning -- Dysphemisms as enhancers of pejorative meaning -- Pejoration and slang -- Pejoratives and the conceptualization of taboo -- How pejoratives are made. Compounding -- Affixation -- Conversion -- Clipping -- Abbreviations -- Loanwords -- Reduplication -- Semantic extensions -- From diminution to pejoration. Size definitely (and semantically) does matter -- The suffix -ie -- The suffix -o -- From excess to pejoration. Too much can be bad -- The suffix -ard -- The combining form -holic -- The combining form -rrhea and the suffix -itis -- The combining forms -later and -maniac -- The combining form -porn -- From resemblance to pejoration. When partial resemblance meets evil -- The suffix -ish -- The suffix -oid -- The suffix -aster -- From metonymization to pejoration. It's not you, it's (a part of) me -- The combining form -head -- The combining form -pants -- The case of pejoratives ending in -ass -- Concluding remarks.
Рубрики: English language--Suffixes and prefixes.
English language--Pejoration.
English language--Morphology.
English language--Semantics.
English language--Morphology.
English language--Pejoration.
English language--Semantics.
English language--Suffixes and prefixes.
Аннотация: "The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the cross-linguistic definition of pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the resulting derivatives is based on an innovative methodology that encompasses the theories and approaches of Construction Morphology, Componential Analysis, and Morphopragmatics. Following the principles of this methodology, pejorative words collected from dictionaries and corpora (a total of approximately 950 words) are abstracted into generalizations (or constructional schemas) where structural and functional similarities are used to cognitively trace the ways in which negative (or derisive) meaning is connected with a specific form. Through this multifaceted methodology, my analysis showcases the fact that the universal properties of 'diminution', 'excess', 'resemblance', and 'metonymization' are what underlie the making of pejorative meaning. These generalizations, along with the schematic representations of formatives, can help linguists, or linguistics enthusiasts in general, to understand the conventions and intricacy of lexical pejoration"--