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Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by De Gruyter October 24, 2016

6. A Web of New Words. A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms

  • Daphné Kerremans
From the journal English and American Studies in German
https://doi.org/10.1515/east-2016-0007
Keywords: conventionalization; social cognition; diffusion; lexical innovation; lexical network
Published Online: 2016-10-24
Published in Print: 2016-11-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

From the journal
English and American Studies in German
English and American Studies in German
Volume 5 Issue 1

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Contents
Editorial note
I. General. Miscellaneous
1. Linguistics and Literary Studies. Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers / Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft. Begegnungen, Interferenzen und Kooperationen
II. Language
2. Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication
3. Signaling Identity through Discourse: Cultural Impacts on the English Language
4. Applicative Arguments. A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English
5. Culinary Linguistics: The Chef’s Special
6. A Web of New Words. A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms
7. Heathens, Pagans, Misbelievers. A Lexico-Semantic Field Study and its Historio-Pragmatic Reflections in Texts from the English Middle Ages
8. Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval. A Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts
9. Pragmatics of Discourse
10. Job Interview Corpus: Data Transcription and Major Topics in Corpus Linguistics
11. Wordplay and Metalinguistic/Metadiscursive Reflection: Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection
III. Literature and culture
A. General. Miscellaneous
12. Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing
13.The Life of Birds in Literature
14. Memory Work: The Second Generation
15. Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven / Factual and Fictional Narration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
16. The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium
17. Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings
18. GenderGraduateProjects I: Geschlecht, Fürsorge, Risiko / GenderGraduateProjects I: Gender, Care, Risk
19. Constructions of the Gendered Self Across the Media
20. Diasporic Generationality: Identity, Generation Relationships and Diaspora in Selected Novels from Britain and Canada
21. Reading Fictions, Changing Minds: The Cognitive Value of Fiction
22. Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
23. Home: Concepts, Constructions, Contexts
24. When Storyworlds Collide: Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics
B. British and Anglo-Irish literatures and cultures
25. Narrating Ancient Egypt: The Representation of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Fantastic Fiction
26. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature
27. Interior Spaces and Narrative Perspectives Before 1850
28. Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
29. Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle
30. Zur Fiktionalisierung von Geschichtsschreibung in postkonstruktivistischer metahistoriografischer Fiktion / The Fictionalization of History in Metahistoriographic Fiction after the Constructivist Challenge
31. Jonathan Swift, Autor von Gulliver’s Travels, Regierungspublizist, irischer Patriot und Querdenker der Aufklärung. Ein essayistisches Porträt / Jonathan Swift: Author of Gulliver’s Travels, government propagandist, Irish patriot and Enlightmenment free-thinker
32. Allegorical Thackeray: Secularised Allegory in Thackeray’s Major Novels
33. Gothic Transgressions: Extension and Commercialization of a Cultural Mode
34. Crimelights: Scottish Crime Fiction – Then and Now
C. North American and Canadian literatures and cultures
35. Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler
36. The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899–2008
37. Street Literature: Black Popular Fiction in the Era of U.S. Mass Incarceration
38. Framing Spaces in Motion: Tracing Visualizations of Earthquakes into Twentieth-Century San Francisco
39. Future-Founding Poetry: The Topography of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century
40. Der Weiße Hai Revisited: Steven Spielbergs ‘Jaws’ und die Geburt eines amerikanischen Albtraums / ‘Jaws’ Revisited: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ and the Birth of an American Nightmare
41. Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, 1850–2010
42. Mediating Indianness
D. New Anglophone and postcolonial literatures and cultures
43. Shakespeare’s Globe, Global Shakespeares: Transcultural Adaptations of Shakespeare in Postcolonial Literatures
IV. Teaching
44. Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs: A Journey Toward Intercultural Understanding
45. Awareness Matters: Language Culture Literacy
46. Literaturkompetenzen Englisch: Modellierung – Curriculum – Unterrichtsbeispiele / Skills in (English) literature: competence models, curricula, and classroom examples
47. Binnendifferenzierung im Englischunterricht – die Lehrerperspektive / Internal differentiation in the English classroom – the teachers’ perspective
Subject and Name Index
List of Authors
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