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    Blending: The Combination of Two Separate Words To Produce A Single New Term Is Called Blending. Examples

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    The document discusses four main types of word formation: blending, clipping, compounding, and borrowing. Blending involves combining two words to form a new term, like "smog" from "smoke" and "fog". Clipping is shortening words to casual forms, such as "fax" from "facsimile". Compounding joins words, like "bookcase" from "book" and "case". Borrowing incorporates words from other languages due to necessity, prestige, or to fit the phonological structure of the borrowing language.

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    The document discusses four main types of word formation: blending, clipping, compounding, and borrowing. Blending involves combining two words to form a new term, like "smog" from "smoke" and "fog". Clipping is shortening words to casual forms, such as "fax" from "facsimile". Compounding joins words, like "bookcase" from "book" and "case". Borrowing incorporates words from other languages due to necessity, prestige, or to fit the phonological structure of the borrowing language.

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    The document discusses four main types of word formation: blending, clipping, compounding, and borrowing. Blending involves combining two words to form a new term, like "smog" from "smoke" and "fog". Clipping is shortening words to casual forms, such as "fax" from "facsimile". Compounding joins words, like "bookcase" from "book" and "case". Borrowing incorporates words from other languages due to necessity, prestige, or to fit the phonological structure of the borrowing language.

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    Blending: The Combination of Two Separate Words To Produce A Single New Term Is Called Blending. Examples

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    1.

    Blending
    The combination of two separate words to produce a single new
    term is called blending.
    Examples:
    Forming Words Blending Forming Words Blending

    1. binary + digit = bit 8. modulator + demodulator = modem

    2. smoke + fog = smog 9. television + broadcast = telecast

    3. smoke + murk = smurk 10. information + =


    entertainment infotainment

    4. channel + = chunnel 11. smack + mash = smash


    tunnel
    5. smoke + haze = smaze 12. teleprinter + exchange = telex

    6. motor + hotel = motel 13. transfer + resistor = transtor

    7. breakfast + = brunch 14. television + marathon = telethon


    lunch
    2. Clipping
    When a word that more than one syllable is reduced to a
    shorter form of usual casual speech, it is called as
    clipping.
    a. Facsimile = fax
    b. Mathematics = math
    c. Dormitory = dorm
    d. Fanatic = fan
    e. Influenza = flu
    f. Telephone = phone
    g. Gymnasium = gym
    h. Albert = Al
    i. Edward = Ed
    j. Susan = Sue
    3. Compounding
    The word formation of compounding is by
    joining of two separate words to produce a
    single form. Examples:
     bookcase, doorknob, fingerprint, sunburn,
    textbook, wallpaper, wastebasket,
    schoolbag and waterbed.
    All those examples are nouns, but we can
    also create compound adjectives such as
    good-looking, low-paid and compounds of
    adjective (fast) plus noun (food) as in fast-
    food or full-time, or such a bird species:
    blackbird.
    4. Borrowing

    Why do speakers
    borrow words from
    other languages?
    First reason is for necessity. People need to develop
    words for new and unfamiliar concepts – new
    technology, new plants and animals, and new and
    unfamiliar foods
    Second, it is for prestige. If certain cultures are associated
    with particular prestigious activities, it is common for the
    words associated with that activity to come from the
    language of that culture.

     When a word is borrowed, it is often gradually changed


    so that it fits the phonological and morphological
    structure of the borrowing language or dialect.
    When a word is borrowed, it is often
    gradually changed so that it fits the
    phonological and morphological
    structure of the borrowing language or
    dialect.
    5. Acronym
    New words are formed from the initial letters of a set of
    other words.
    a. Pronuncing each separate letter; CD, DVD, SMA,
    ATM.
    b. Pronuncing as new single word; NATO, NASA, STAIN,
    PIN.
    c. Pronuncing as everyday terms; Radar = Radio
    Detecting and Ranging, Laser = Light amplification by
    stimulated emission of radiation)

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