SUBSTANTIVE COMPOUND NEOLOGISMS AND THEIR DOMINANT COMPONENT OF A POLYSEMIC MODEL WITH THREE MEANINGS IN THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS: A SYNERGETIC DIMENSION OF EFFORT CONSERVATION

Abstract

The present study represents the third stage of research into compound noun neologisms with different semantic scopes of their dominant component in simple and complex sentences of the contemporary German-language press from the perspective of linguosynergetics. In this article, such a synergistically balanced analysis focuses on the substantive lexicon of compound neologisms whose dominant component is represented in dictionaries by a polysemic noun model with three meanings. Methodologically, a fundamental principle of the study is the assumption that the driving force is the synergetic law of linguistic energy conservation and effort minimization, which directs the human mental lexicon towards decoding compound noun neologisms whose dominant component corresponds to the semantic scope of a three-meaning polysemic word model. The dictionary, as a representative of linguistic generalisation concerning the structured body of knowledge of extralinguistic reality, is considered from a linguosynergetic perspective in relation to the mental lexicon. The results obtained through a synergetic-quantitative approach are extrapolated onto synergetic models by correlating the decoded nominations of the first (primary) meaning and the derived second and third meanings of the dominant component of the studied polysemic format with simple and complex sentences in the German-language press. It is demonstrated that the synergetic mechanism of effort minimisation in German has led to the formation of a semantic dimension in which the polysemic noun model with three meanings most optimally balances the expenditure of linguistic energy according to the principle of “simple/complex sentence – condensation of the nominal content of a neologism through the greatest polysemic distance of the third derived meaning within a three-meaning format”. This indicates that the polysemic noun model with three meanings, as a factor of the increasing economy of a limited number of linguistic signs, through the activation of its third derived meaning, most effectively intensifies the condensation of meaning in compound noun neologisms, enabling them to designate a significantly broader range of extralinguistic realities within the structural organisation of both simple and complex sentences in the German-language press.