Jan Svanlund

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Svanlund plays a role.

Article

Svanlund, Jan 2018 Metalinguistic comments and signals: What can they tell us about the conventionalization of neologies?The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models, Kerremans, Daphné, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid (eds.), pp. 122–141 | Article
Many neologies receive a large amount of metalinguistic focus during their conventionalization. This includes explicit metalinguistic comments, as well as several ways of emphasizing a new word qua word in running texts, so-called metasignals (e.g., quotation marks). This article reports from a… read more