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How do writers create neologisms through blending in journalistic text?
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?
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?
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
