Antonomasia and literary nonce-words in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy "The Lord of the Rings"

Authors

  • Elina N. Shekhtman Orenburg State Pedagogical University image/svg+xml Author
  • Tatiana V. Shuldeshova P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18255/2412-6519-2016-2-143-147

Keywords:

antonomasia, literary nonce-words, mechanisms of nomination, word derivation, affixation, Word Composition

Abstract

The article dwells on the mechanisms of creation of antonomastic units and literary nonce-words in J. R. R. Tolkien's work resorting to his fantasy «The Lord of the Rings». The authors are showing that the effectiveness of these mechanisms can be explained by the fact that J. R. R. Tolkien, being a professional linguist and polyglot, made use of authentic language mechanisms of word derivation and word composition as well as his profound knowledge of language theory and linguistic history.

References

Tolkien J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin LTD, 1969.

Wictionary the free dictionary [Электронный ресурс]. URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary (дата обращения: 17.04.2016)

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Published

2016-06-23

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Philology

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