Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English
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Содержание

  • Pejoration and beyond. What is pejoration?
  • Pejoration at the interface of semantics and pragmatics
  • A cross-linguistic interpretation of pejoratives
  • A two-dimensional analysis of pejorative lexis
  • Pejoratives: What for?
  • Pejoration and X-phemisms
  • Euphemisms as neutralizers of pejorative meaning
  • Dysphemisms as enhancers of pejorative meaning
  • Pejoration and slang
  • Pejoratives and the conceptualization of taboo
  • How pejoratives are made. Compounding
  • Affixation
  • Conversion
  • Clipping
  • Abbreviations
  • Loanwords
  • Reduplication
  • Semantic extensions
  • From diminution to pejoration. Size definitely (and semantically) does matter
  • The suffix -ie
  • The suffix -o
  • From excess to pejoration. Too much can be bad
  • The suffix -ard
  • The combining form -holic
  • The combining form -rrhea and the suffix -itis
  • The combining forms -later and -maniac
  • The combining form -porn
  • From resemblance to pejoration. When partial resemblance meets evil
  • The suffix -ish
  • The suffix -oid
  • The suffix -aster
  • From metonymization to pejoration. It's not you, it's (a part of) me
  • The combining form -head
  • The combining form -pants
  • The case of pejoratives ending in -ass
  • Concluding remarks.