Motivation in Language: the case of Metonymically Motivated Innovative nouns in Children's Speech
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1195
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.154
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i7.154
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Konieczna, EwaFecha
2006Resumen
The aim of this paper is to provide partial evidence that a great many neologisms in children’s speech are metonymically motivated. For our purposes we shall rely basically on the language corpus gathered in the course of longitudinal studies carried out during the years 2000-2002, concentrating on innovative nouns formed by English-speaking and Polish children. Apart from this, we will provide selected examples of lexical innovations drawn from Eve V. Clark’s language data (Clark 1993). However, before the discussion commences, let us briefly outline the issue of motivation in language in order to provide a broader background for the investigations to follow. El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar de forma parcial que muchos de los neologismos en el habla de los niños se deben a una motivación metonímica. Para ello nos basaremos básicamente en un corpus del lenguaje recogido a través de una serie de estudios longitudinales llevados a cabo durante los años 2000-2002, centrados en su...
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Motivation
Metonymy
Innovative nominalisation
Perspectivisation
Apperception
Motivación
Metonimia
Nominalización innovativa
Perspectivización
Apercepción