FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

“nave”, a Norwegian verb, formed through conversion of acronym NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) with suffix “-e” added to form verb with meaning ‘voluntarily stay out of work and claim benefits without entitlemets’, first observed in 2012 and Norway’s official Word of the Year that year

Gisle Andersen is Professor of English linguistics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway, where he teaches Communication and Technology, Strategic and Political Communication and English for Business Communication. His research focuses on different aspects of corpus linguistics, pragmatics and terminology/lexicography, and he has worked extensively on the development of corpora and other language resources. His research interests span topics such as language contact and borrowing, neologisms and term formation, discourse markers and politeness, and discourse in specialised contexts. His publications include Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation (John Benjamins, 2001); Exploring Newspaper Language (ed., 2012), Pragmatics of Society (ed. with Karin Aijmer, 2012) and English corpus linguistics: Variation in Time, Space and Genre (ed. with Kristin Bech, 2013).