Lexical innovations in the Polish press discourse on the basis of "Newsweek Polska"  Cover Image

Innowacje leksykalne w polskim dyskursie prasowym na przykładzie tygodnika Newsweek (próba typologii)
Lexical innovations in the Polish press discourse on the basis of "Newsweek Polska"

Author(s): Beata Jezierska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Keywords: lexical innovation; noelogisms; borrowings; neosemanticisms; press discourse

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the most interesting examples of Polish lexical innovations excerpted from a socio-political magazine "Newsweek Polska". On the basis of my research, I noted 250 new words not yet included in the existing dictionaries. It proved that loanwords were the group the most important (37%); the next group consists of neologisms (26%), then we have also "false loanwords" (18%) and neosemanticisms (8%).

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 294-302
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish