FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

My favorite neologism is “fluir”, which in Spanish has a new meaning in the field of affective relationships. It interests me because it relates to new ways of understanding emotional bonds. This neologism is based on the metaphorical conceptualization of emotions as substances.

Carmen Sánchez Manzanares is Associate Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain), Spanish Language and General Linguistics Department. She has a PhD in linguistics and she holds a Master’s Degree in “Elaboration of dictionaries and quality control of the Spanish lexicon”. She has completed a research stay at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Francia) to develop the postdoctoral research project on social communication. Their research lines are lexical semantics, neology, terminology, lexicography, discourse analysis and linguistic historiography. She is the coordinator of the NeoUMU Neology Group, part of the NEOROC network. She was the Principal Investigator of the research project on updating the Spanish lexicon in the press, the main results being the monograph entitled Estudios de neología del español y the online dictionary of neologisms NEOMA. She participates in several research projects on neology and terminology and their impact on the use of gender-sensitive language in discourse: NEOTERMMED, DIGITENDER, DIMUPREN-PANHIS.