La composición culta y la neología de la prensa escrita

Abstract

The learned composition is a process of word formation that usually offers specific characteristics. It is precisely these characteristics which have been and are an object of discussion at the moment of trying to analyze or describe it, particularly in terms of the nature and function of its components and about determining the place it can occupy among the different methods of creation. Perhaps one of the more attractive properties of this method is the entire disposition it seems to present the user of language, so that with great ease, he/she can attain its creative components and, taking one of them, build its new words from the common language linking them to the traditional words and also create new elements by adopting patrimonial wordsto the format of classical Greek and Latin elements. This supposes, therefore, that the so-called method of learned composition, normally used for the formation of technical and scientific vocabulary (with an internal working similar to the old Greek and Latin compositions: determiner+determinant) is being used every day due to the new lexical necessities the normal speaker encounters on a daily basis. So, there has been a process of trivialization not only in the terms, that allowed its distribution, but on the method itself, which contributed in an extraordinary way to the neological creation.