The present study offers a cognitive linguistic account of selected recent derivatives in -izm/-yzm, such as jakizm, cejrowskizm, erdoganizm and petruizm(y)pl. Over a hundred complex nouns of this type, employing a politician’s or a public figure’s name as the derivational base, have been culled from online written sources. The coinages under analysis are mostly occasionalisms that are currently used in informal and semi-formal political discourse in Poland. Both their morpho-syntactic and semanto-pragmatic properties are examined. The focus is placed on metonymies and metaphors that motivate the construction of their meaning and enhance their semantic analysability.
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