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New terms for a new time: Vocabulary teaching and how society shapes the English lexicon

dc.contributor.authorCasas Pedrosa, Antonio Vicente
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-19T22:28:03Z
dc.date.available2025-01-19T22:28:03Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper is aimed at focusing on the issue of the creation of new words to provide new concepts with a linguistic shape in genres such as mass media. More often than not, English vocabulary, since this is a lingua franca, will be the starting point for the naming of gadgets in the case of new technologies, for example. For that reason, many concepts such as “Internet”, “software”, “wi-fi”, etc. are not translated into other languages (e.g. Spanish). However, nowadays other languages also provide certain social phenomena with a word which is later being translated and incorporated into English. Such is the case, for instance, of the Spanish noun “austericidio”. The English counterpart is “austericide” and it can be briefly defined as “economic self-destruction”. According to Google, “austericidio” was used 102,000 times on the Internet in 2014, whereas the number of hits retrieved for “austericide” is 60,100 (now the figures have been reduced to 42,000 and 2,140, respectively). Due to the impact of the current crisis on many countries, governments have adopted new measures whose implementation is provoking new situations which require new vocabulary. For that reason, new words are being coined as a reply to this context. A good English example illustrating this phenomenon could be the noun “staycation”, which, in fact, has not been included in some dictionaries yet. It is now also possible to check that a given word is being used with a specific meaning which did not use to be the most frequent one. Such is the case of the Spanish verb “desahuciar”. Many examples (mainly from both English and Spanish) will be provided and classified into different groups. Some of these instances illustrate word formation processes such as blending and borrowings, and they all should be taken into account for vocabulary teaching.es_ES
dc.identifier.citationCasas Pedrosa, A. V. 2018. “New terms for a new time: Vocabulary teaching and how society shapes the English lexicon” (publicación en forma de abstract). XIX Congreso Internacional de la SEDLL (Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura): “La educación lingüística y literaria en relación con las didácticas específicas, las disciplinas humanísticas y otros saberes emergentes”. Libro de resúmenes. Almería: Universidad de Almería; 62-63.es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10953/4150
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherUniversidad de Almeríaes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofXIX Congreso Internacional de la SEDLL (Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura): “La educación lingüística y literaria en relación con las didácticas específicas, las disciplinas humanísticas y otros saberes emergentes”, del 28 al 30 de noviembre de 2018. Almería: SEDLL (Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura), 2018.es_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectEnglish lexicones_ES
dc.subjectneologismses_ES
dc.subjectvocabulary teachinges_ES
dc.subjectdictionarieses_ES
dc.subjectSpanish lexicones_ES
dc.subject.udc8es_ES
dc.titleNew terms for a new time: Vocabulary teaching and how society shapes the English lexicones_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectes_ES
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiones_ES

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