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‘Blended’ Cyber-Neologisms

New words show how our world is changing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2016

Amanda Roig-Marín
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Technologies are beginning to blend our experience of digital and physical realities. We exchange data (images, videos, messages, etc.), present ourselves to the rest of the world on social media, network, and even perform a larger number of tasks than in person. As our world and ways of life keep on changing, so do words. The aim of this article is to examine the coinage of blends (i.e. smog-type [<smoke + fog] words) as a response to the blended realities that have emerged from the use of new technologies.

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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 2 - 5
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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