Blending in English

and Vietnamese
Group 6
(Friday – Period 123)
 Members
1. Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyet
2. Phung Thi Thanh Vinh
3. Le Thi Huyen Trang
4. Nguyen Thi Trang
5. Hoang Thao Uyen
 Contents
01 02 03

Definition Total blends Partial blends

04 05 06

Overlapping Non-overlapping Coordinate

blends blends blends
01 Definition
Blending
 What’s blend?
A word made up of parts of two other words and
combining their meanings
The new word then represents a combination of
the sounds and meanings of the two original word,
but has its own unique meaning too!
Example

CALEXICO
 BLEND WORDS
International Internet Network
Motor Motel Hotel
Stay Staycation Vacation
Breakfast Brunch Lunch
Web Blog Log
Smoke Smog Fog
 Total
02 blends
 Similarities
Minimizing the amount of words
Meaning derived from the meaning of its parts
Common in commercial and politic language

English Vietnamese
blog = web + log công danh = thà nh công +
email = electronic + mail danh tiếng
 Differences
English
- A part of one word is combined
with part of another word:
+ The beginning of one word is
following by the end of another:
Ex: spoon + fork → spork
+ The beginning of one word may
be followed by the beginning of
another:
Ex:
American + Indian → Amerind
Vietnamese
A word in two words is combined
with one of another one:
Ex:
tham gia (1) + tư vấ n (2)
→ tham vấ n
thiế u niên (3) + nhi đồ ng (4)
→ thiế u nhi
 Partial
03 blends
 Introduction

In a partial blend, one entire word is

concatenated with a splinter from another.
 Similarities
An entire word may be followed by a splinter

English Vietnamese
Chill + Relax → Chillax Đá + Quả bó ng → Đá bó ng

A splinter may be followed by an entire word

English Vietnamese
Emote + icon → emoticon Mà u sắ c + Hồ ng → Mà u
hồ ng
 Differences
English Vietnamese
An entire word may replace An entire word may be made
part of another. a new meaning when
Ex: combining with another
Friend + enemy→ Frenemy splinter.
Hungry+ angry→ Hangry Ex:
Đấ t + Nướ c non → Đấ t nướ c
Ruộ t + Da thịt → Ruộ t thịt
 Overlapping
04 blends
Overlapping blends are those for which the
ingredients' consonants, vowels or even syllables
overlap to some extent. The overlap can be of
different kinds. These are also called haplologic
blends.

Ex: anecdote + dotage → anecdotage
pal + alimony → palimony
 Similarities
May be an overlap that is both phonological and orthographic

ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
Picture + Dictionary → Pictionary Suy nghĩ + kết luận → Suy luận
 Differences
ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
- Termed imperfect blends. Don’t have these
It can occur with three components: characteristics.
Ex: Meander + Neanderthal + Tale →
Meandertale
- The phonological overlap need not also be
orthographic:
Ex: war + orgasm → wargasm
 Differences
ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
- If the phonological but non-orthographic Don’t have these
overlap encompasses the whole of the shorter characteristics.
ingredient, then the effect depends on
orthography alone.
(They are also called orthographic blends.)
Ex: sin + cinema → sinema
sham + champagne → shampagne
An orthographic overlap need not also be
phonological:
Ex: smoke + fog → smog
 Non-
05 overlapping
blends
Non-overlapping blends (also called substitution
blends) have no overlap, whether phonological or
orthographic
Ex: Beautiful + delicious → beaulicious
 Similarities
It can be combined with any of the constituent parts of the word

ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
Television + Photogenic →  Telegenic TV + ả nh →  truyền hình
 Differences
ENGLISH
- Having no overlap, whether
phonological or orthographic
Ex:
California + Mexico → Calexico
Beautiful + delicious → beaulicious
VIETNAMESE
- Non-overlapping takes place
with the combination of parts
of things, phenomena
Ex: Động cơ + bàn đạp = xe máy
Tiểu sử + hình ảnh = bộ phim
tiểu sử
 Coordinate
06 blends
Coordinate blends (also called associative or
portmanteau blends) combine two words having
equal status, and have two heads

Ex: Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch

 Similarities
Those that combine (near) -> synonyms
ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
Insinuation + innuendo Bé nhỏ + tí tẹo → Bé tí
→Insinuendo

Those that combine (near) -> opposites

ENGLISH VIETNAMESE
Transmitter + Receiver → Cao lớ n + Thấp bé →
Transceiver Cao thấp
Thank you!