REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH RHYMING SLANG

• Authors: Kołłątaj Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Reduplication as a word formation process is a relatively under-researched phenomenon in English. The aim of the paper, therefore, is to present different types of derivational reduplication ranging from the prototypical type based on exact repetition to the implied reduplication underlying the word formation process in cryptic rhyming slang. The article also strives to overview the typology of English rhyming slang as this is the domain of language where different types of reduplication abound. The article is written within the theoretical framework of sociolinguistics and morphology and offers ample citational evidence to substantiate theoretical assumptions.

Keywords

EN

reduplication,; slang,; cryptic,; typology,; compounding

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: XII
• Pages: 93-103

Dates

published

2010-12-01

Contributors

author

Kołłątaj Andrzej

• Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa w Gdańsku Kolegium Kształcenia Nauczycieli Języków Obcych w Gdańsku

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