The cognitive motivation and purposes of playful blending in English
The motivation of playful blending is circumscribed by the combination of source words with a recognized linguistic similarity (either semantic or morphological), or an oxymoronic effect. Interlocutors may then remotivate the consonant clusters of these forms, if they associate semantic features to...
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| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/9518 |
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