Neologisms or linguistic failures?

Authors

  • Beatriz M. Arrieta de Meza
  • Rafael Daniel Meza Cepeda
  • Judith Teresa Batista Ojeda
Keywords: neologisms, word, term, necessity criteria, linguistic failures

Abstract

In the research studies related to neologism production in Spanish by university professors, a series of words but not terms have been detected, which according to the respective characterization should not be considered in the category of neologisms. Words are the lexical units belonging to the general, language, whereas term or terminological unit denotes a specialized concept in any disciplines of knowledge. The question that serves as a title of this article is the main problem we face in this opportunity: to determine whether the lexical units used by professors in the written academic discourse could be considered as neologisms, following the certain basic conditions, such as the necessity criterion and the morphophonemic constrains of Spanish, or if they are simply linguistic failures, including the illegal copies and modifications of word formation rules in Spanish which threaten our language.

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Author Biographies

Beatriz M. Arrieta de Meza

Universidad del Zulia. Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. Centro de Documentación e Investigación Pedagógica. Maracaibo, Venezuela

Rafael Daniel Meza Cepeda

Universidad del Zulia. Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. Centro de Documentación e Investigación Pedagógica. Maracaibo, Venezuela

Judith Teresa Batista Ojeda

Universidad del Zulia. Facultad de Ingeniería. Idioma Instrumental
How to Cite
Arrieta de Meza, B. M., Meza Cepeda, R. D., & Batista Ojeda, J. T. (2008). Neologisms or linguistic failures?. Journal of Linguistic Research, 11, 361–376. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/ril/article/view/53831