RT Journal Article
T1 Social Networks: A Source of Lexical Innovation and Creativity in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish
A1 Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, Beatriz
AB There is no doubt that the Internet, where English is ubiquitous, has revolutionized our way of life. Socially, it has opened frontiers to such an extent that nowadays human beings can be permanently connected, no matter the distance between them, in virtual encounters where social networks play a crucial role. Linguistically, on the other hand, it has created a new global language which combines properties of written and oral speech. The Internet’s lexical level, in particular, is described as extremely innovative, creative and playful since it is full of neologisms, many of which are Anglicisms, coined to name the new realities constantly brought along with the evolution of the digital world. In order to demonstrate that social networks are indeed the source of a wide array of creative and playful neological Anglicisms in Peninsular Spanish, we have carried out a corpus-based analysis of the names of five current social and interactive forms of Internet communication in two contemporary Spanish corpora; specifically, that of the indirect social network generically known as the blog and those of the direct social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp. Our study focuses, specifically, on four facets of these neological Anglicisms: (i) their date of introduction into the language; (ii) their frequency of occurrence; (iii) their diverse spellings; and (iv) finally, the different word-formation processes they enter
PB MDPI
SN 2226-471X (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20057
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20057
LA eng
NO Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, B. (2021). Social Networks: A Source of Lexical Innovation and Creativity in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish. Languages, 6(3), 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6030138
NO This research has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund and theRegional Government of Andalusia (FEDER Andalucía 2014–2020), project number UPO-1254742
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026