Word-forming Creativity of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz in the Structural and Cognitive Approach
2023; Volume: 42; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17951/lsmll.2023.47.2.137-151
ISSN2450-4599
Autores Tópico(s)Education and Cultural Studies
ResumoThe aim of the article is to review selected lexical units appearing in Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s (henceforth also called Witkacy) letters to his wife. For the analysis of these lexemes, the methodological apparatus of traditional structural word-formation was used, but tools derived from Ronald Langacker’s (1987, 1995, 2008) cognitive grammar and the findings of other researchers remaining in this trend also became indispensable, since the structural description of neologisms and textual occasionalisms turned out to be insufficient. Only the cognitive approach made it possible to show Witkacy’s word-formation creativity, effective contextual decoding of meanings and to approximate the mechanisms of the conceptualizer’s mental perception of the world.
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