Protologism

Protologism is the term coined in 2003 by a American literary theorist Mikhail Epstein in character to a word coined, by an individual or a small group, that has non yet been published independently of the coiners. The word may be proposed, may be extremely new, or may not be defining outside a very limited business of people. A protologism becomes a neologism as soon as it appears in published press, on a website, or in a book, independently of the coiner. A word whose developmental stage is between that of a protologism freshly coined as well as a neologism a new word is a prelogism.

Overview

The word protologism describes one stage in the developing of neologisms, at which a word is proposed, extremely new, or not establish outside a very limited multiple of people. A protologism is coined to fill a gap in the language, with the hope of its becoming an accepted word. When it was created, the term protologism was autological; it was an example of the object it describes. Epstein coined the term by combining the Greek words together with :

Icalling such kind new words 'protologisms' from Greek protos, meaning 'first, original' and Greek logos, meaning 'word'; cf. prototype, protoplasm. The protologism is a freshly minted word not yet widely accepted. it is a verbal prototype, which may eventually be adopted for public advantage or continue a whim of linguo-poetic imagination.

According to Epstein, every word in use started out as a protologism, subsequently became a neologism, and then gradually grew to be factor of the language. There is no fixed controls determining when a protologism becomes aneologism. According to Kerry Maxwell, author of Brave New Words:

[A] protologism is unlikely to realise the leap to neologism status unless society connects with the word or identifies a genuine need for it [...] there's nothat simple exposure to these creations will be effective in getting them used, as discovered by British inventor Sir James Dyson when he fruitlessly attempted to promote a verb dyson by analogy with hoover in the early 2000s.