1. How new words enter the language

2. How new words enter the language
Jargons and subcultures
Specialised activity inevitably creates the need for an associated specialised language to refer to it.
ICT is sorrounded by a specialist language aimed to show individual and group identity.

3. How new words enter the language
Jargon and subcultures
Jargon is a mode of speech familiar only to a group or profession.
Ex.: byte, chip, baud, etc…

4. How new words enter the language
Jargon and subcultures
There is a distinction to be made between
jargon for
instrumental technical purposes Vs
jargon for social purposes

5. How new words enter the language
Eric S. Raymond (1996) categorises:
hacker slang: from mainstream English and not technical subculteres (e.g. user)‏
hacker jargon: slang language peculiar to hackers
techspeak: the formal technical vocabulary of computer science as found in textbooks, technical dictionaries and standard forms

6. How new words enter the language
Hacker jargon
Such group tends to re-lexicalise and/or over-lexicalise words.

7. How new words enter the language
Re-lexicalisation
It occurs by inventing new terms or re- using words for new meanings
Ex.: newbie, spamming, bootstrapping, etc….

8. How new words enter the language
Over-lexicalisation
It is a process in which there are more words than are necessary for communicating the specialised meaning
Ex.: nerd, anorak, geek, technophile etc.

9. How new words enter the language
Both processes are based on patterns of metaphor, humor, insider references, imagery, but very often on extreme taboo- breaking choices.
Ex.: Acronyms, emoticons and smileys.

10. How new words enter the language
Vocabulary change is commonly understood as a matter of new words
for new things
but
it also shows both a social and a linguistic dimension

11. How new words enter the language
Linguistic recycling
New technology vocabulary sometimes has language ‘fossils’ in which a term from a past technology is recycled in other but related ways.
The new uses will encode a different range of cultural attitudes and this may bring new connotations.

12. How new words enter the language
POTENTIAL> for change, including practical and social needs
IMPLEMENTATION>including triggering and actuation in strict/specialistic contexts
DIFFUSION> a wider spread through language
CODIFICATION> words achieve an official status and can be recorded in dictionaries

13. How new words enter the language