Cultural Foundations of the Processes of Adult and Children’s Word Creation

The article aims to show the groundlessness of such a point of view as that the creation of new words is a “not serious” process, peculiar only to children for the rea son of poverty of their vocabulary. The creation of words is typical for adults as well. A common basis for the word cre ation in different ages is a uniform mechanism carried out through the acts of objectification - disobjectification - co creation. The diary records made by parents are of great im portance for the study of children’s language - the language of conventional subculture of childhood. The article shows that the surge of interest in this form of fixing of the samp les of occasionalism refers to the 1920s, which corresponds to the flourishing of local lore study. The author draws an analogy between the culture of relations “world of child hood - world of adults” and “capital - province”, proving that the world of childhood is not less rich and culturally sa turated than the world of adults. However, this uniqueness is being increasingly suppressed by the mass media, which have a strong influence on the child. In many cases, it leads to a wrong choice of the verbal model according to which the word is constructed. In general, the child’s language is logical, consistent, and economical. Its nomination does not need clarifications, while in the adult language, the expla nation of concept contains terms that require, in their turn, additional interpretations. The children’s word formation is associated with the children’s folklore, because the former serves as a basis and a tool for the latter.

word creation, children’s word creation, adult word creation, objectifi cation, disobjectifi cation, co-creation, occasionalisms, child, subculture of childhood

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