More "Portmanteau" Coinages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729823 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Withington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1932 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 200-200 |
| Publication date | 1932-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/451651 |
| OpenAlex | W2316695011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
U NLIKE Lewis Carroll (who, if not the inventor of portmanteau words, gave them a name, a definition, and what the modern business man would call publicity), a school of rebellious, if not revolting, writers of our day, which seeks to coin blends,1 manufactures combinations of which neither part is obvious. The Carrollian portmanteau continues to be coined, however; and during the past half-century writers who pack up two meanings into one word-to use Lewis Carroll's phrase-are increasing. Before Through the Looking-Glass appeared (in 1871), Durdles had made a combination of tomb and rheumatism; in the fourth chapter of Edwin Drood, we find
Australian History and Society · Chemistry · Literature: history, themes, analysis
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 2018 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |