AUGMENTATIVBILDUNGEN IN DER SPRACHE DER MASSENMEDIEN
AUGMENTATIVE EDUCATIONS IN MASS MEDIA LANGUAGE

Author(s): Irina Bulgacova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Lexis, Language acquisition
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: mass-media language; augmentation; augmentative; prefix; prefixoid; composition;
Summary/Abstract: The following article deals with augmentative formations, that is, word formation products that reinforce or intensify the meaning of the basis. The focus is on the use of augmentation in the language of the German mass media. Based on a number of examples registered in current mass media texts, we have analyzed various word formation methods, the semantic peculiarities and the pragmatic performance of augmentative formations in modern German.

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