COGNITIVE SPECIFICS OF PSEUDOBORROWING AS THE MEANS OF CREATING OCCASIONALISMS
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The article focuses on the research of pseudoborrowing as one of the modified cognitive means of creating occasionalisms in English postmodern literary text. Сognitive mechanisms and procedures underlying cognitive word-formation have been viewed in the article. There should be distinguished the main three types of occasional word-formation according to the type of knowledge pointed out by Vasyl Byalyk: aggregated, condensed and modified. This article characterizes one of modified means of creating occasionalisms in English postmodern literary text – pseudoborrowing. Pseudoborrowing has such differentiating features as the presence of three operations: 1) borrowings; 2) convergence of the borrowed word, unit or its component with the suffix, affix, word or word combination of the recipient language on the basis of a language game; 3) creation of occasionalism with different connotative marking (emotionality, evaluation, expressiveness, paradoxality, humorous colouring). Pseudoborrowings are the borrowings transformed from other languages and adapted to a new language system. The base for the research is chick-lit fiction, as it presents genuinely innovative mixture of forms, which is displayed in different types of occasional word-formation processes. As the article triggers cognitive grounds of occasional word-formation, cognitive mechanisms and procedures underlying it are described. Among which are the following: cognitive procedure of deviation from the inherent meaning and pejoration of meaning. It makes a case for application of such cognitive analysis to reveal new knowledge transmitted via pseudoborrowing.
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K. P. Nykytchenko
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