Lexical productivity: suffixation in Qué Pasa Salta

Abstract

Journalistic practices discover particular linguistic uses that make each social activity unique. Each activity uses a specific language, characterised by the heterogeneity that comes from the convergente of three components: linguistic, paralinguistic and iconic ones, whose articulation varies according to the type of media expression: graphic, digital, radio or television (Romero Gualda, 1994). Media production in Salta has, in effect, particular features related to audio-phonological, morphosyntactic, lexico-semantic components, as well as others related to graphic and normative aspects. Only those concerning the lexical level are considered, particularly productivity, since the purpose of this communication is to investigate the mechanisms that are successful in shaping new voices. The theoretical tenets supporting the corpus – made up of newspapers and weekly newspapers of the graphic and digital press, Publisher between August and November 2017 - are related to productivity and word formation. Only a fragment of the corpus has been selected for this work: articles taken from the digital newspaper Qué Pasa Salta, published between September and October, where voices involving morphemes with considerable vitality are shown. In this way, the features that characterise the lexical component established in relation to a single word formation mechanism –suffixation–, referring to a limited nucleus of affixed forms.