Some Reflections on the Semantic Changes of Neos Creativity | ||
| Journal of the College of Languages | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 33, October 2017, Pages 178-200 | ||
| Author | ||
| Jinan Abdul Razzaq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Various semantic innovations and expansions have been tackled as factors and sources of neos. A variety of internal (linguistic) and external (extra-linguistic) motives and motifs leads to the appearance of new terms causing such changes in the political language. Some statesmen are productive in introducing new terms and creative in manipulating expressions and meanings. New words are nonces that get metaphorical expansion for quadrilateral motivations resting on extra meaning innovation, new terms at the semantic expansions to be honed as neos. In tracing the phases of the semantic processes of neos and hulks, lexical and semantic changes might be of widening or narrowing of referential meaning; or of ameliorating or pejorating the expression force power. Bleaching of the existed word meanings might be prestigious or for a linguistic need. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| neologisms; semantic change; metaphorical expansion; phases; phemisims | ||
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