FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

My favourite neologism is “sonder” in English. It means: the sudden realization that every stranger around you has a life as significant as your own. “Sonder” was coined in 2012 by American writer John Koenig for “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” Koenig constructed it partly with French sonder (“to probe, sound”) and German sonder- (“special, separate”) in mind. I like it because it gives a name to a surprising experience/epiphany—while walking through a crowd, becoming aware that everyone you pass is the author of their own life.

Professor Ph.D. at the Department of English Language and Literature at Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2013. Her research interests are English Language and Literature, Literary Theory, Linguistics, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5621-7354