Stylistic lexicology

Coinages and nonce-words

• Coinage – a newly-created lexeme; nonce-word – 16th century phrase for the nonce (for the once), a lexeme created for temporary use to solve an immediate problem of communication
• Blurb 1907 coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess
• E.g.: Loadsmoney, loadspeople; megaplan, megabrand, megacity, user-friendly, environment-friendly, customer-friendly, nature-friendly, girl-friendly; sexism, weightism, heightism, ageism
• Back-formation: television-televise; double-glazing – double-glaze; baby-sitter – baby-sit

World Wide Words (neologisms)

• emoticom ( Emotional Smileys - :-) ha ha |-) hee hee |-D ho ho :-> hey hey :-( boo hoo :-I hmmm :-O oops
• The second type arises when the creator of a new word seeks to make the utterance more expressive. Such words are called stylistic coinages.
• conversion, derivation (affixation), change of meaning can be considered as the main means of word- building in the process of coining new words.
• -ee arrestee, assaultee, auditee, auditionee, awardee, biographee, callee, contactee, contractee, counsellee, dedicatee, electee, extraditee, flirtee, forgee, hittee, interactee, introducee, investee, murderee, outee, ownee, phonee, pickee, rapee, releasee, rescuee, sackee, shortlistee, standees, retiree, refugee, absentee

Derivation (affixation)

• -er – orbiter, spacecraft designed to orbit a celestial body; lander; missiler – person skilled in controlling missiles.
• -ize – detribalize; accessorize, moisturize; plagiarize, villagize.
• Anti – anti-novelist; anti-hero; anti-world; anti-emotion; anti-trend.
• -dom – gangdom; freckledom; musicdom; stardom.
• -ship – showmanship; brinkmanship; lifemanship; mitressmanship; supermanship; lipmanship.
• Belonging to a city, a country as inhabitant or language – Chinese, Portuguese, Genoese, New-Yorkese
• Pertaining to a particular writer or style – Johnsonese, journalese, translatese, televese, computerese.