An introduction to cognitive linguistic analysis of novel name-based derivatives in the current political discourse in Poland
Iwona Góralczyk
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztyniehttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2845-7267
Joanna Paszenda
Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowiehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6741-0579
Abstract
The present contribution provides a theoretical and methodological background for
an analysis of novel suffixal derivatives that are based on proper names and function
in the current political discourse in Poland. We delineate the most important assumptions
behind a cognitive linguistic approach to word-formation, focusing particularly on one
of the models within this paradigm, namely Construction Morphology. It has been demonstrated that complex words and abstract word-formation patterns can be viewed
as constructions, which may be polysemous, and whose meanings may be motivated by
metonymy and metaphor. It is also demonstrated that conceptual metonymy motivates the
process of conversion, clipping and various types of morphological truncation. However,
suffixal derivation is potentially metonymic only if the base morpheme or the suffix exhibit
extended senses, or if a semantic shift applies to the derivative as a whole.
Keywords:
name-based derivative, morphological construction, motivation, metonymy, metaphor, neologism, occasionalismReferences
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