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Word creation in online poetry: A multifaceted analysis
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2026-87-2-91-99
Abstract
The article presents a comprehensive (namely, word-formation, structural-semantic, functional, and linguistic pragmatic) analysis of occasionalisms in online poetry and describes their textual functions. Moreover, it demonstrates the relationship between these functions and the structural and word-formation characteristics of the new nonce words. The main methods of creating occasionalisms in the examined poetic texts are identified. The study indicates that the structural-semantic relations between the nonce word series in the text serve as a constitutive feature that determines the poetic text composition. The study analyses the correlation between the compressive and meaning-generating functions of occasionalisms which consists in the formation of a bundle of semantic features in them interacting with other components of the text. We also highlight the connection between the meaning-generating, compositional, compressive functions and the focus on language game which underlies linguistic creativity.
Keywords
online poetry,
оccasionalism,
textual function,
language game,
linguistic creativity,
interstage word formation
Supporting agencies: The work was carried out with the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project FSWR-2026-0016) within the framework of the basic part of the state assignment.
About the Authors
L. V. Ratsiburskaya
National Research Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Larisa V. Ratsiburskaya, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Language and General Linguistics
Nizhny Novgorod
E. N. Shirokova
National Research Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena N. Shirokova, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor
Nizhny Novgorod
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Ratsiburskaya L.V., Shirokova E.N. Word creation in online poetry: A multifaceted analysis. Russian language at school. 2026;87(2):91-99. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2026-87-2-91-99
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