Word Coinage Process

A Word Coinage Process is a Word Formation Process that creates a Neologism or Protogism.

• AKA: Word Coinage, Coinage, Word Coining Process.
• Example(s):
  • A Word Compounding Process (e.g. peanut, butterfly)
  • A Word Reduplication Process (e.g. hocus-pocus, okeedokee, goody-goody, wishy-washy)
  • A Word Blending Process (e.g. smog = smoke + fog, podcast = iPod + broadcast, motel = motor + hotel, brunch = breakfast + lunch)
  • A Word Clipping Process (e.g. gym, phone, exam, gas, math)
  • An Eponymy (e.g. Jumbo, Sandwich)
• See: Word Formation.

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References

2017a

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coining Retrieved:2017-5-28.
  • Coining may refer to:
    • Coining (metalworking), metalworking process
    • Solder ball flattening
    • Coining (mint), production of money
    • Counterfeiting of coins
    • The creation of a protologism or neologism

2017b

• (Hurley, 2017) ⇒ Pat Kamalani Hurley - "Week 10 Module 4 Lesson 4.1.5 Other Word Formation: Coinage" http://www2.leeward.hawaii.edu/hurley/ling102web/mod4-1_morphology/4mod4.1.5_coinage.htm Retrieved on 2017-05-08

2017c

• (Academia.edu, 2017) ⇒ Norra Erisha, "Introduction to General Linguistics- Word Coinage: Clipping" http://www.academia.edu/7281870/Word_Coinage_klipping Retrieved on 2017-05-28
  • Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes and often from seemingly nothing. As neologism or coinage, we identify the word formation process of inventing entirely new words (neology). This is a very rare and uncommon method to create new words, but in the media, people try to outdo each other with more and better words to name their products. Often these trademark names are adopted by the masses and they become everyday words of language (Yule 2006, 53).

1913

• (Pound, 1913) ⇒ Pound, Louise, "INDEFINITE COMPOSITES AND WORD-COINAGE." (1913). Faculty Publications -- Department of English. Paper 6. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/6 [1]
  • (...)The process of word-coinage which, for expediency in classifying the words involved, or in characterizing their manner of origin, I have called in this paper indefinite blending, or reminiscent amalgamation, borders not only upon blending or fusion proper-definite blends of few and easily recognizable elements being the more likely to be conscious formations and to retain unimpaired the potency in implication of their various elements-but also upon onomatopeia, or direct imitation of natural sounds, and upon the unconscious symbolism of sounds. The latter arises partly from the nature of the sounds themselves; for example from the difference in suggestive power between open or close, high or low vowels ; in the quality of certain consonant combinations ; in the difference between explosives and continuants, between voiced consonants and voiceless. Poets in particular are likely to avail themselves of this principle to attain what is called ' tone color.' But the symbolism may also arise, or find its suggestive power, partly through association with familiar established words in which these sounds occur. The subtle suggestion of combinations of letters is a subject as yet little investigated (...)

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