Andrea Sogorb Gilabert
Class Workshop 5
1. Classify the following clipped words according to the
segments or parts of the words that have been truncated
(back-clipping, fore-clipping, syncope, median-clipping,
parallel-clipping).
a. Ad (< advertisement) back-clipping
b. App (< application) back-clipping
c. Baccy (< tobacco) fore-clipping/ syncope
d. Vars (< university) median-clipping
e. Cab (< cabriolet) back-clipping
f. Combo (< combination) back-clipping /derivation
g. Co-op (< cooperative organization) back-clipping
h. Fanzine (fan +magazine) back-clipping
i. Fridge (<Frigidaire) back-clipping
j. Gator (< alligator) fore-clipping
k. Hi-tech (high +technology) parallel-clipping
2. Read the following excerpt and identify the motivations
that might correspond to each situation (ideational,
expressive, textual)
a. Heated confrontations erupted inside a Senate Republican luncheon on Wednesday
as lawmakers traded unusually personal and sometimes profane attacks on one
another. At the center of the ruckus was Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who argued
separately with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), according to a
person who attended the lunch and another who was briefed on it. (The
Washington Post, July 13, 2018) They are ideational
b. “ ‘Homosexual’ has the ring of ‘colored’ now, in the way your grandmother might
have used that term, except that it hasn’t been recuperated in the same way,” said
George Chauncey, a Yale professor of history and an author who studies gay and
lesbian culture. (...) “It also contains ‘homo,’ which is an old derogatory,” he added.
(The New York Times, March 14, 2014) They are textual
