DIMINUTIVE, ȘI LA PROPRIU, ȘI LA FIGURAT
DIMINUTIVES, BOTH LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY

Summary/Abstract: Along other Romance languages, Romanian contains an impressive amount of diminutives, and the language used on the internet makes no exception. In the present case study defined by an intense practical tendency, we are interested in some diminutives gathered from online conversations. As the title of our paper suggests, the focus will be upon diminutives with two meanings, a literal one, and a figurative one. In our approach, we will analyze each diminutive, trying to identify the etymology of its base (the word that generated the diminutive), the meanings is used with, along with the appropriate contexts, and to give our subjective opinion on the role of the diminutives in those specific contexts. Our approach aims to illustrate the overwhelming linguistic creativity of the internet users.

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