neologisms

Reading the literature in what I'd call "academic game studies," and taking Alex Galloway's recent Gaming as one example, I am always struck by the urge toward coining neologisms as a first step in creating a practice of Game Studies.

Academic Instincts and Virtual World Studies 2006

Martin H. Simon/Getty Images At first, the neologisms were a kind of secret language among the fashion industry, etymologists say.

Murses, Mandals and Mankinis 2011

At first, the neologisms were a kind of secret language among the fashion industry, etymologists say.

Grab Your 'Murse,' Pack a 'Mankini' And Don't Forget the 'Mewelry' Christina Passariello 2011

If your main concern is my usage of “portmanteau neologisms,” then you my dear are missing the bigger picture here.

PART 1/3: Nicki Minaj and the Paradox of Hip Hop Feminism « Gender Across Borders 2010

Just because it's been established that you're allowed to coin neologisms here doesn't mean that you get to assign your own preferred new meaning into existing words, you know.

Oppressed by the label "Republican"? Ann Althouse 2006

Some patients invent personalized condensations and combinations of words, known as neologisms.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

"Women's aspirations to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher earning persists in most European countries," says the report's author, Catherine Hakim, a senior research fellow in sociology who is no stranger to controversy, having last year coined the neologisms "erotic capital" and "beauty premium" to describe the key professional attribute of our times.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Then she programmed them to play a series of games in which they paired the letters into nonsensical combinations like "ja" or "ku" and joined those syllables to coin neologisms as needed.

digg.com: Top News Digg 2011

"Women's aspirations to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher earning persists in most European countries," says the report's author, Catherine Hakim, a senior research fellow in sociology who is no stranger to controversy, having last year coined the neologisms "erotic capital" and "beauty premium" to describe the key professional attribute of our times.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

They have created new metaphors and images, coined neologisms and concocted strange combinations of words and phrases.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4 1984