Metapragmatic neology in digital discourse
Solid groundwork for Morphopragmatics and Construction Morphology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31885/lud.6.1.255Keywords:
morphology, neology, Morphopragmatics, Construction Morphology, digital discourseAbstract
This note addresses the topic of Judith Bridges’s focus article, namely ‑splain neologisms such as mansplain, thinsplain and covidsplain, from the perspective of morphological theory. I attempt to show that Morphopragmatics, a subfield of morphology, can account for the complex pragmatics of word formation processes like those in ‑splain neology. I propose that the analysis of ‑splain words as constructional idioms, under the framework of Construction Morphology, provides a suitable account of the pragmatic effects associated with the innovations in this lexical pattern.
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