Publications
Publication details [#46146]
Diller, Anthony. 2007. Lexical innovation and “the genius of the Thai language”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 186 : 13–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study on Lexical innovation in Thai reviews the impact of Prince Wan Waithayakorn (1891–1976), who presented the “genius of language” as a Thai sociolinguistic mechanism, to take up (or reject) hundreds of neologisms in common usage.