Diminutivele în mediul online. Studiu de caz: literele A, B, C
The online diminutives. Case study: the letters A, B, C

Summary/Abstract: In her approach, the author is interested in a linguistic analysis of diminutives used in the online environment. The case study is built upon 797 examples of diminutives starting only with a, b, c letters which were excerpted mostly from internet forums. It must be stated that, in this total, diminutives formed from the same base were also included. In this approach, only diminutives that are not registered in any lexicographical paper are analyzed and for each of them the context is also provided. The study is structured on three levels: lexical, semantic and, to a lesser extent, pragmatic. From the lexical point of view, the study will emphasize upon the most productive and frequently used diminutive suffixes at the present time on the internet, the bases that generate diminutives or the morphological distribution of diminutives. Taking as a starting point the universal structure of the semantics of diminutives offered by D. Jurafsky, the author attempts a semantic typology of the diminutives and also a review of their pragmatic values, based on examples. In the semantic analysis, diminutives with two or three meanings will also be discussed, as well as some expressions containg diminutives.

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