TheIslamicUniversityOfGazaFacultyofArtsEnglish.docx

The Islamic University Of Gaza Faculty of Arts English DepartmentMaster of Applied Linguistics Translation  Contrastive Linguistics Clipping in English and Arabic Prepared by/ Hussni M.El-Salahat Supervised by/ Prof.Dr. Walid Mohammad Amer Clipping in English What is clipping? Clipping refers to the process whereby a lexeme (simple or complex) is shortened, while still retaining the same meaning and still being a member of the same class. Clipping is the process of shortening a word without changing its meaning or part of speech. Clipping is the term for the formation of a new word-form, with the same meaning as the original : lexical term, by lopping off a portion and reducing it to a monosyllabic or disyllabic rump. Clipping is not restricted to a single existing word, but can also apply to a whole phrase: mob ?mobile vulgus?, zoo ?zoological garden? Types of Clipping Clipping predominantly affects nouns. In English there are few verbs that are used in their clipped forms as: rev revolve, prep prepare, phonetelephone, and few adjectives ascomfycomfortable, mizzy miserable and more rarely adverbs and preposition. Whatever kind of clipped words, there are four types of English clipping: back clipping, fore-clipping, middle-clipping, and complex clipping (In addition to truncation). Back-Clipping : It is the most common type of clipping in English, in which the beginning of the word is retained, i.e. clipping the final part of the word. The unclipped word original may be either a simple or a composite one adadvertisement demodemonstration cig cigarette ref referee vibs vibrations Fore-Clipping : It is the second type of clipping in which it retains the final part of the word, i.e. clipping of the initial part of the beginning of the word. Fore-clipping is less common then the back-clipping words. Examples: Phonetelephone; ?froAfro; Yard montagnard; varsity university; gram telegram; loid celluloid Middle Clipping