Neologism

The painting A Primeira Missa no Brasil (First Mass in Brazil) is part of the collection of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, and I had the opportunity to see this work many times during my life. The painting shows the first mass celebrated in Brazilian soil and the event was documented by the Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Pero Vaz de Caminha, the clerk of Pedro Alvares Cabral, recorded his first impressions on the uncovered land in a 27 pages long document. A Primeira Missa…

completely stop talking in the direct middle of a thought. When asked why they do this, it is said that people feel the thought was taken directly out of their head. Finally, a person with a thought disorder might make up meaningless words, or "neologisms."(Schizophrenia. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml) There are multiple causes for the disease as well. It’s also thought that environmental factors later in life, during early childhood…

Foucault says that the category of homosexuality itself was only created a mere one hundred years ago, after a German neologism coined some twenty years later. Foucault gives root to the social derivation of homosexuality believing that homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality, only “after it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior…

Rationale This editorial addresses the different types of language used across a variety of social relations and contexts through the examples of ‘baby talk’, which is the unique type of language and manner that adults tend to instinctively speak towards infants and young children, as well as how language has developed alongside social media, as a platform for a variety of social situations and contexts. This ranges from professional advertising to to private messaging, all the way to…

George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a son of a British civil servant, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India and died on January 1, 1950 at the age of 47. He spent his first day in India where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames. George Orwell was known as an English novelist, essayist, and critic in Great Britain. His work is marked by ordinary language,…

Although Herman Melville never received sufficient recognition for his literary genius while he was alive, today he is regarded as one of the most iconic American writers ever. His most famous work, Moby Dick, is a classic for students and adults likewise. Herman Melville is also well known for helping make short stories into a serious form of writing in the US. Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street was not as well-appreciated as the action-filled Typee and Omoo, but today it is one…

Who are the Nacirema? Nacimera is a term used in anthropology and sociology to the aspects of the behavior and society of citizens of the United States of America. The neologism attempts to create deliberate sense of self-distancing for American anthropologists might look at their own culture more objectively. Miner wrote the paper, and it describes the Nacirema as a little known tribe living in North America. The way in…

Confucianism has built a huge part of Korea since the Chosun Dynasty. It’s family-based, and emphasizes worshipping the ancestors and following the rule of the family. One example that clearly shows the rule of Confucianism is “chulgawoein”, which means a married woman is no longer the part of the family as she would be immediately included in her husband’s family. In Book of Mencius, written by Mencius’s disciples, explicitly states: When a young man comes of his age of 20 as an adult, his…

Given the weight of these explored policy initiatives as well as the eye opening figures that they consequently produced, justice system onlookers might label such with a term known as overcriminalization. By definition, Overcriminalization is a neologism used to describe the overuse and misuse of the criminal law, oftentimes to punish conduct that society traditionally would not deem morally blameworthy. According to Larkin in his article titled Public Choice Theory and Overcriminalization, the…

Jakobson’s introduced the concepts of intralingual, interlingual and intersemiotic equivalence. He claims that in interlingual translation there is no full equivalence between the source text and the target text, techniques like paraphrasing, synonyms, neologisms and loan-words are used. Intersemiotic translation refers to the transfer form one form (written, oral) to a symbol or a…