Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English / José A. Sánchez Fajardo.
| Author/creator | Sánchez Fajardo, José A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022] |
| Description | xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 222 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021049527 |
| ISBN | 9789027210609 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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