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# Linguistic Contact: The neologism must circulate in areas where multiple dialects and varieties of the language converge, fostering mutual understanding and assimilation.<ref name=":16">Fischer, Roswitha (1998): ''Lexical Change in Present-Day English. A Corpus-Based Study of the Motivation, Institutionalization, and Productivity of Creative Neologism''. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Online at: <nowiki>https://books.google.ch/books?id=H93nAVbwZwwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false</nowiki>.</ref> | # Linguistic Contact: The neologism must circulate in areas where multiple dialects and varieties of the language converge, fostering mutual understanding and assimilation.<ref name=":16">Fischer, Roswitha (1998): ''Lexical Change in Present-Day English. A Corpus-Based Study of the Motivation, Institutionalization, and Productivity of Creative Neologism''. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Online at: <nowiki>https://books.google.ch/books?id=H93nAVbwZwwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false</nowiki>.</ref> | ||
Currently, gender-neutral French neologisms lack widespread adoption, even within LGBT and nonbinary communities. Their presence is low in written form,<ref>Café aux étoiles. maison d'édition sereine et onirique (no data): ''Littérature''. Online at: https://cafeauxetoiles.fr/litterature/.</ref><ref>Les Ourses à plumes. Webzine féministe (2022): ''Les elfes noirs ne sont jamais noirs (1) : enjeux de la représentation dans les fictions de l'imaginaire''. Online at: https://lesoursesaplumes.info/tag/une/.</ref> and their usage in spoken language limited. However, the Internet serves as a platform for these neologisms to reach a global audience of francophone speakers from Africa, America, Europe, and minority language communities all around the world. Additionally, descriptive approaches to language (cf. ''Le Robert'') contrary to prescriptive approaches (cf. L'Académie) have lead to the acceptance of one of them, 'iel', in written discourse. | Currently, gender-neutral French neologisms lack widespread adoption, even within LGBT and nonbinary communities. Their presence is low in written form,<ref>Café aux étoiles. maison d'édition sereine et onirique (no data): ''Littérature''. Online at: https://cafeauxetoiles.fr/litterature/.</ref><ref>Les Ourses à plumes. Webzine féministe (2022): ''Les elfes noirs ne sont jamais noirs (1) : enjeux de la représentation dans les fictions de l'imaginaire''. Online at: https://lesoursesaplumes.info/tag/une/.</ref> and their usage in spoken language limited. However, the Internet serves as a platform for these neologisms to reach a global audience of francophone speakers from Africa, America, Europe, and minority language communities all around the world. Additionally, descriptive approaches to language (cf. ''Le Robert''), contrary to prescriptive approaches (cf. L'Académie), have lead to the acceptance of one of them, 'iel', in written discourse. | ||
For neologisms to gain wider adoption, they must be learnable and user-friendly. This means they should be easy to understand and easy to remember due to morphological linguistic motivation, easy to pronounce while adhering to the phoneme inventory and phonotactics of the language, familiar to the target audience, and responsive to a genuine need.<ref name=":16" /> If these criteria are met, neologisms will start being adopted by avant-garde language users. As these avant-garde figures gather large online communities, the frequency of usage of these neologisms will increase, fostering familiarity among the francophone community. From then, some of these neologisms could potentially enter the standard vocabulary. | For neologisms to gain wider adoption, they must be learnable and user-friendly. This means they should be easy to understand and easy to remember due to morphological linguistic motivation, easy to pronounce while adhering to the phoneme inventory and phonotactics of the language, familiar to the target audience, and responsive to a genuine need.<ref name=":16" /> If these criteria are met, neologisms will start being adopted by avant-garde language users. As these avant-garde figures gather large online communities, the frequency of usage of these neologisms will increase, fostering familiarity among the francophone community. From then, some of these neologisms could potentially enter the standard vocabulary. | ||