LINGUIST List 21.3641 Wed Sep 15 2010 Books: Discourse Analysis/Morphology/Historical Ling: Harnisch (Ed) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic Strengthening]: Harnisch (Ed) Message 1: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic Strengthening]: Harnisch (Ed) Date: 09-Sep-2010 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic Strengthening]: Harnisch (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic Strengthening] Subtitle: Typen formaler Resegmentierung und semantischer Remotivierung Series Title: Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 37 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110223859-1 Editor: Rüdiger Harnisch Electronic: ISBN: 9783110223866 Pages: 383 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110223859 Pages: 383 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: Processes in which linguistic entities are "weakened" formally and in their meaning (e.g. "Kien-Föhre" > "Kiefer") have been well researched, but "strengthening processes" (e.g. Caribbean "hamaca" > folk-etymological explanation "Hänge-matte") in which linguistic entities are first created have hardly been researched at all. The intention of this volume is to fill this gap by exploring both normal folk-etymologies and more subtle ones. The examples presented include: the interpretation in children's language of heiser as the comparative form of "heis" - i.e. "heis-er", the literal interpretation of expressions (e.g. "Gastarbeiter" [guest workers] is considered wrong, because guests and work are mutually exclusive) and the attribution of meanings derived from world knowledge to words, which are not contained in the words' literal meaning (see the choices of Germany's annual "Unwort" competition for the "un- word" or "No-No Word of the Year"). Pleonasms (such as "Hai-Fisch" instead of just Hai) round off the thematic spectrum. 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