FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

As an ailurophile, I find the neologism pro-cat-stination particularly interesting. It is an English blend in which the word cat was inserted in or superimposed over the word procrastination, overlapping with some of its segments. It was used on Instagram on Dec. 10, 2023 to refer to a situation “When the cat jumps on your lap right as you were getting up to do sth” (Instagram).

Gorica Tomić is Assistant Professor of English Language at the Faculty of Education in Užice, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac, in 2011. In 2012, she obtained a master’s degree from the same department. In 2023, she received a PhD degree from the same faculty. Her PhD thesis deals with contemporary English and Serbian lexical blends in contrast, in particular their structural, semantic and sociolinguistic aspects. She is a (co-)author of a number of scientific papers, published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. She has presented her papers at several national and international conferences. She has also participated in the project The Dynamics of Structures of the Contemporary Serbian Language (178014) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Her main research interests include: English Morphology (particularly English Word-formation), English Lexicology, English-Serbian Contrastive Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics.