Senad Arifi

Session

Education and Development

Description

This paper focuses on investigating the frequency of modern neologisms with an extra-linguistic sources in Corpus of Contemporary American English, respectively the frequency and collocations of these neologisms in the mentioned corpus. A corpus investigation was undertaken: more than fifty neologisms were taken from the corpus. Judging from the data in this study, the analysis and comparisons seem to be exclusively informative and in some cases less common from a linguistic perspective. It also concludes that the use of neologisms, especially modern neologisms is rapidly increasing. Charts and tables with results from the corpus were presented to get a clearer view of what has been investigated. The text types in which modern neologisms were most frequently used were presented in charts, and also the most frequent collocations were analyzed to conclude whether these neologisms were exceptionally accepted in certain study fields and contexts. Considering the importance of corpora nowadays, the outcomes of this research will allow English teachers, students, and translators to be aware of the use and frequency of modern neologisms, cases when they can and cannot be interchangeable with other words in different contexts and fields.

Keywords:

corpus analysis, COCA, neologisms, modern, frequency, students, analysis, conclusion

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-982-15-3

Location

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

Start Date

25-10-2024 9:00 AM

End Date

27-10-2024 6:00 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2024.136

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A Corpus Study of Modern Neologisms (with an emphasis of extra-linguistic sources)

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

This paper focuses on investigating the frequency of modern neologisms with an extra-linguistic sources in Corpus of Contemporary American English, respectively the frequency and collocations of these neologisms in the mentioned corpus. A corpus investigation was undertaken: more than fifty neologisms were taken from the corpus. Judging from the data in this study, the analysis and comparisons seem to be exclusively informative and in some cases less common from a linguistic perspective. It also concludes that the use of neologisms, especially modern neologisms is rapidly increasing. Charts and tables with results from the corpus were presented to get a clearer view of what has been investigated. The text types in which modern neologisms were most frequently used were presented in charts, and also the most frequent collocations were analyzed to conclude whether these neologisms were exceptionally accepted in certain study fields and contexts. Considering the importance of corpora nowadays, the outcomes of this research will allow English teachers, students, and translators to be aware of the use and frequency of modern neologisms, cases when they can and cannot be interchangeable with other words in different contexts and fields.