Bio:
Sagima Sultanbekova is a PhD student in the specialty “Foreign Philology” at L.N.Gumilyev Eurasian National University, Astana city, in the Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduated at the Abykai-khan Kazakh State University of World Languages and International Relations in the specialty of teacher of English and German languages. After she worked as a senior teacher of English at higher institutions for 21 years. For the last 10 years of which she worked in the Foreign Philology department at L.N.Gumilyev Eurasian National University. She taught Basic English: Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate levels and English lexicology. Then she entered and completed her Master’s degree of Education with Honors at L.N.Gumilyev Eurasian National University. She defended her Master thesis on “Bilingual Education of Kazakhstan: challenges and their solutions”. In 2019 she is going to defend her Doctoral dissertation on ”Functional Pragmatic Peculiarities of Kazakh and English Neologisms”. She published several articles on word-formation of neologisms, e.g. “Development of the Educational Concept of Kazakh Neologisms: methods of identification, criteria and trends for school and university students ” with a group of English teachers of her department in the Scopus previewed journal (Revista ESPACIOS. ISSN 0798 1015 Vol. 39 (Nº 40) Year 2018). Her research interests are word-formative types of neologisms of Kazakh and English and their functional-pragmatic peculiarities.
Presentation title:
Pragmatic Aspects of English Neologisms
Presentation highlights:
Birth of new words is caused by some pragmatic necessities. Semantic novelty of a new word brings to pragmatic novelty. Newly-born lexical semantic variant of a word expands pragmatics of the lexeme as the boundary of situations and contexts, where the lexeme can be used, broaden too. Creating a new word a speaker intends to communicatively affect the listener trying to sound “beautiful” at the same time. This paper aims to investigate pragmatic aspects of English neologisms. The analyzed neologisms are from the web-site Word Spy.com. Although semantic meaning of a neologism plays a crucial role in comprehending the neologism, perceiving the pragmatic factors of neologisms is vital for a linguist too. Whereas semantic meaning can be explicit, pragmatics of a new word appears to be implicit. This paper suggests special approach to reveal the pragmatic features of neologisms. The key findings of this research propose compelling pragmatic nature of English neologisms.
While writing the paper the author attempts to give detailed answers to the following research questions:
RQ1: What is neologism?
RQ2: What kind of approach should one apply in order to reveal the pragmatics of neologisms?
RQ3: What pragmatic factors do English neologisms bear?
English neologisms from January 1st to May 31st of 2018 from the Word Spy are compromised for analysis.
English neologisms are approached with help of componential analysis and transformational analysis of meaning which allowed the author analyze the components of new words; method of contextual analysis in defining the influence of pragmatic information on the use of new words. Examination of the new words’ pragmatics in the paper is realized according to models of social variation in language of scientist W.Labov. His model is based on 1) class stratification regarding social classes, occupation, ethnic group, age, gender, education and etc.; 2) situational (official, neutral, non-official/colloquial and etc.) differentiation. According to the author of this model there is close interrelation between these two kinds of differentiation. In the result of use in an unusual situation a new word conveys a new meaning which later is formed in a new lexical semantic variant of the new word. The big amount of English neologisms, namely 91 new words denote occupational sphere of people indicating professional parameter: e.g.: VERBICAINE (medicine) - n. Soothing words used to calm or distract a patient who is awake during a surgical procedure;
References:
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Additional information:
In 2019 she is going to defend her Doctoral dissertation on ”Functional Pragmatic Peculiarities of Kazakh and English Neologisms”. Her research interests are word-formative types of neologisms of Kazakh and English and their functional-pragmatic peculiarities.
E-mail: sagima2007@mail.ru