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1 Word formation processes in Game of Thrones

2 A short introduction…. Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. 

3 Neologisms in “Songs of Ice and Fire”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2003: 1179), a neologism is “a newly coined word or expression that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language”. Neologisms can apply both a new meaning and a new form or just one of those elements.

4 Neologisms Lexical -newly formed words(affixation) or borrowings from other languages Semantic- acquisition of a new meaning by an existing word All neologisms can be divided into semantic and lexical ones, de- pending on the process which occurs (usually word-formation devices such as affixation and compounding). Neologisms in Songs of Ice and Fire have lexical character!

5 Most of them are toponyms or proper names, and only few refer to objects or animals. One of the animals which is important for the plot is the DIREWOLF. Martin created its name on the basis of the phrase ‘dire wolf’ (which means a large extinct wolf of the Pleistocene epoch). The adjective dire itself means ‘serious’ or ‘urgent’. Knowing that, the reader should create a picture of a direwolf as a very big wolf.

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7 Toponyms Iron Islands -Ironbay, Greyjoys
Casterly Rock-the ancestral stronghold of House Lannister. Braavos- free City in the Continent of Essos Castle Black – a quarry The Citadel – training place of scholars, healers, learned men. Winterfell- House Stark’s ancestral home, one of the 7 kingdoms. King’s Landing- Main kingdom Dorne – One of the 9 constituents of Game of Thrones

8 Cersei’s Walk of Shame, King’s Landing, Dubrovnik

9 Compounds wet nurse -a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
hell-bent -recklessly determined Headsman-an executioner who beheads the condemned person Touchstone -a basis for comparison draft horse- horse adapted for drawing heavy loads master-at-arms- the senior petty officer Ironwood -exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

10 Valyrian Languages The Valyrian languages are a fictional language family in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, and in their television adaptation Game of Thrones. Created by linguist David J.Peterson the most convincing fictional tongues since Elvish".

11 HIGH VALYRIAN PHRASES THAT EVERY GAME OF THRONES FAN MUST KNOW
Valar morghulis – All men must die Valar dohaeris – All men must serve Dracarys – dragon-fire Skoros morghot vestri? – What do we say to death? Tubī daor – Not today Yer shekh ma shieraki anni. -"You are my sun and my stars." (Dothraki)

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13 More vocabulary… Khaleesi-  is a word in the Dothraki language that refers to the wife of a Khal, the ruler of a Dothraki tribe. In English, the suffix –ess is often used to indicate that the subject is female. Mhysa is a word in the Ghiscari language that means mother. In Martin’s fictional world, the Ghiscari Empire was once a great civilization that had its heart in Slaver’s Bay on the continent of Essos.

14 A warg is a person with the ability to project his consciousness into the minds of wolves.
Kingsmoot - A traditional gathering in which the people of the Iron Islands (the Westeros version of Vikings) choose their next king. The Anglo-Saxon term that surely inspired this one is ‘folkmoot’, a civic assembly.  Maesters are scholars who act as physicians, tutors, and advisors to the noble houses of Westeros – resembles the English word Master in both form and meaning, original meaning- male tutor.

15 Thanks for your attention 
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