Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English
"The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the cross-linguistic definition of pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner st...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2022]
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 222. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pejoration and beyond. What is pejoration?
- Pejoration at the interface of semantics and pragmatics
- A cross-linguistic interpretation of pejoratives
- A two-dimensional analysis of pejorative lexis
- Pejoratives: What for?
- Pejoration and X-phemisms
- Euphemisms as neutralizers of pejorative meaning
- Dysphemisms as enhancers of pejorative meaning
- Pejoration and slang
- Pejoratives and the conceptualization of taboo
- How pejoratives are made. Compounding
- Affixation
- Conversion
- Clipping
- Abbreviations
- Loanwords
- Reduplication
- Semantic extensions
- From diminution to pejoration. Size definitely (and semantically) does matter
- The suffix -ie
- The suffix -o
- From excess to pejoration. Too much can be bad
- The suffix -ard
- The combining form -holic
- The combining form -rrhea and the suffix -itis
- The combining forms -later and -maniac
- The combining form -porn
- From resemblance to pejoration. When partial resemblance meets evil
- The suffix -ish
- The suffix -oid
- The suffix -aster
- From metonymization to pejoration. It's not you, it's (a part of) me
- The combining form -head
- The combining form -pants
- The case of pejoratives ending in -ass
- Concluding remarks.