LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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Neologisms in Urdu
A Linguistic Investigation of Urdu Media

Mohsin Khan, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

Scientific-technical revolution, development of mass media, impetuous development of social life resulted in appearance of an enormous amount of new words and meanings. It resulted in so-called “neologism”. Neologism is an important morphological process to produce new words in a language. It is used as one of the ways to generate new words and word forms in the language. Neologisms are especially useful in identifying inventions, new phenomena, or old idea, which have taken on a new cultural context. The present paper will discuss the process of neologisms in Urdu media.

Keywords: Word-formation, Neologism, Coinage, Society and Media, Word-formation processes.

1.1 Introduction

The speakers of a language can coin new words according to their needs with the help of already existing words or word-forming elements in the language. The amount of newly generated information that we utilize in our daily lives far surpasses the accumulative amount of information that we produced in past generations. Therefore, we need to create or coin a huge number of new labels and names for everything new that has come into existence in recent times.

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Mohsin Khan, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh
India
mohsinkhanyusufzai@gmail.com
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