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Creating Neologisms in Journalism
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Creating Neologisms in Journalism

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How do writers create neologisms through blending in journalistic text?

  • By borrowing words from other languages and incorporating them into the text
  • By combining two existing words to form a new word, such as 'smog' (correct)
  • By shifting word meaning, for example, using verbs as adjectives to develop new meanings
  • By adding suffixes or prefixes to create new words, like the use of '-gate' to designate a scandal
  • How did the French language influence the lexical features of legal texts?

  • By employing prefixes or suffixes to create new legal terminology, such as the use of '-gate' to designate legal scandals
  • By borrowing words from French, such as 'frustrating' and 'claim'
  • By using adjectives that stand behind the nouns they modify, such as 'court martial'
  • Through derivatives with the 'ee' suffix denoting a person as a recipient of action, like 'expellee' (correct)
  • What are the pedagogical implications of stylistics to the teaching of language and literature?

  • Stylistics is claimed to be of value in creative writing programs and in professional, academic, or technical writing development (correct)
  • Stylistics is not claimed to have any value in teaching literature
  • Stylistics can only be used in creative writing programs but not in professional or technical writing development
  • Stylistics can only be applied in professional, academic, or technical writing development but not in teaching literature
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