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Title: Creating Creative Blends In 21 Century (A Comparative Study Of English And Bulgarian.

 

Vol. 12(2), 2024, pp. 185-199. 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.46687/JMFX7973.  

 

Author: Svetlana Nedelcheva

About the author: Svetlana Nedelcheva is an Associate professor of English linguistics at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Department of English Studies. She has published two monographs Cognitive Interpretation of the English Preposition ON and Space, Time and Human Experience: A Cognitive View on English and Bulgarian Prepositions, two course books English Morphology – Traditional and Cognitive Perspective and Essential English Syntax for University Students, and research articles in the field of cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and foreign language teaching. She has specialized in a number of universities, e.g., the University of Bangor, UK (Post-Doctoral Research Program) and Georgetown University, USA (as a Fulbright researcher). 

e-mail: s.nedelcheva@shu.bg       

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-8758    

 

Link: http://silc.fhn-shu.com/issues/2024-2/SILC_2024_Vol_12_Issue_2_185-199_15.pdf

 

Citation (APA): Nedelcheva, S. (2024). Creating creative blends in 21 century (A comparative study of English and Bulgarian). Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 12(2), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.46687/JMFX7973.

 

Abstract: This article studies blending as a word-formative strategy used in newly coined vocabulary in English and English borrowings in Bulgarian. It involves merging parts of two or more words to create a new lexical unit and typically occurs when the beginning of the first is combined with the end of the second to form a new word that represents a combination of their meanings. Blending is commonly used to create new words for technological advancements, brand names, and other contemporary concepts. For this study we constructed two databases containing vocabulary which has already been included in the dictionaries of Standard English and some of them in the Dictionary of New Bulgarian Words. Additionally, we try to determine the processes of adaptation the English borrowings are subject to when they are adopted in the target language and their assimilation. The article also explores morphological differences in the construction of English and Bulgarian blends.

Keywords: new words/ neologisms, blends, English, Bulgarian

 

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