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Record 1 1991-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Of or pertaining to Hitchcock; characterized by Hitchcock.

CONT

In this horrifying 'Silence of the Lambs', director Jonathan Demme straddles the old and the new, taking a gruesome plot and filming it with Hitchcockian discretion and taste.

OBS

This is a neologism by derivation. The affixation of the suffix -ian to the proper name 'Hitchcock' creates the neologism 'Hitchcockian'. Through this affixation, a change of grammatical category occurred whereby the noun 'Hitchcock' became an adjective 'Hitchcockian'.

OBS

In the Oxford English Dictionary (1989 ed., Vol. 7), the suffix -ian means "of or belonging to" (p. 593).

OBS

Sir Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, U.S. film and television director and producer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

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