Friday 18 May 2012

Wednesday 16 May 2012

BIOGRAPHIES


LADY DIANA HIDALGO LÒPEZ

I was born on July 23th, 1988 in Daule. She is Daughter of two distinguished characters, Leopoldo Hidalgo Ruiz and Rosa Lòpez. They’re known for the social work they do in the city. She has one brother and one sister. Their names are Melanny and Mauricio.
Her initial studies she developed in her city, later she traveled to Guayaquil and she studied at “Veintiocho de Mayo” High School. She graduated of Bilingual Secretary. Nowadays she is studying Languages and Linguistics at University of Guayaquil, she is in 5th course. 
Lady Hidalgo is married with Hugo Adrian. They have one son. His name is Hugo Geampierre. They love him a lot. They are the administrator of their own business. They have a cyber and they work together.  




TATIANA PILAR PANTALEÒN LOOR


 On January 12th 1990, Tatiana Pantaleòn Loor  began her journey through life. Tatiana is the youngest daughter of Sir Lorenzo Pantaleòn Espinoza and Marìa Pilar Loor.
In 1992 her family moved to Palestina town. She attended to Palestina high school. Later she decided to study to become an English teacher.
Nowadays she is studying at Guayaquil University. She is in fifth course of languages and Linguistics. She works as an English teacher at San Bartolomè High School. 

EXERCISES



                
LOOK AT THE COMBINATION OF  WORDS  AND FORM A BLENDING.

                  


                  breakfast + lunch                         =  brunch____
                  motor + hotel                               =  motel_____
                        smoke + fog                                =  smog_____
                        Spanish + English                       =  spanglish__
                        spoon + fork                                =  spork_____
                        telephone + marathon                 =  telethon___
                        documentary + drama                =  docudrama
                        emote + icon                               emoticon__
                        fact + fiction                                faction____
                        situation + comedy                     sitcom____

 

                    advertisement + entertainment → advertainment
                biographical + picture → biopic
                breakfast + lunch → brunch
                chuckle + snort → chortle
                cybernetic + organism → cyborg
                guess + estimate → guesstimate
                hazardous + material → hazmat
                prim + sissy → prissy
                simultaneous + broadcast → simulcast
                web + seminar → webinar




LINKS PAGES





 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/-kemmer/words/wordtypes.htm 


 http://www.blending-words.com


FORMATION OF BLENDINGS


Formation of Blendings

Most blends are formed by one of the following methods.The word formation processes of compounding, clipping, and blending are important concepts when creating words. Also included for download are vocabulary lists of common English compounds, clipped words, and blends.

Compounding

Compounding is the word formation process in which two or more lexemes combine into a single new word. Compound words may be written as one word or as two words joined with a hyphen. For example:

  • noun-noun compound: note + book → notebook
  • adjective-noun compound: blue + berry → blueberry
  • verb-noun compound: work + room → workroom
  • noun-verb compound: breast + feed → breastfeed
  • verb-verb compound: stir + fry → stir-fry
  • adjective-verb compound: high + light → highlight
  • verb-preposition compound: break + up → breakup
  • preposition-verb compound: out + run → outrun
  • adjective-adjective compound: bitter + sweet → bittersweet
  • preposition-preposition compound: in + to → into

Compounds may be compositional, meaning that the meaning of the new word is determined by combining the meanings of the parts, or noncompositional, meaning that the meaning of the new word cannot be determined by combining the meanings of the parts. For example, a blueberry is a berry that is blue. However, a breakup is not a relationship that was severed into pieces in an upward direction.
  1. The beginning of one word is added to the end of the other . For example, brunch is a blend of breakfast and lunch.
    • simultaneous (5) + broadcast (2) → simulcast (3, exception)
    • smoke (1) + fog (1) → smog (1)
    • spoon (1) + fork (1) → spork (1)
  2. The beginnings of two words are combined. For example, cyborg is a blend of cybernetic and organism.
  3. Two words are blended around a common sequence of sounds. For example, the word Californication, from a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a blend of California and fornication, and the word motel is a blend of motor and hotel
  4. Multiple sounds from two component words are blended, while mostly preserving the sounds' order. Poet Lewis Carroll was well known for these kinds of blends. An example of this is the word slithy, a blend of lithe and slimy.
When two words are combined in their entirety, the result is considered a compound word rather than a blend. For example, bagpipe is a compound, not a blend, of bag and pipe.