Word Formation Processes in Persian Argot

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Some speakers prefer or need to keep their words secret. Therefore, they developed a special language variety to communicate with each other without problem. This variety is called argot, and like other varieties has its unique phonological, morphological and semantic rules. To identify the word formation process of argot among Persian teenagers and adolescents, a field research was carried out among the 21 year-old students of Islamic Azad Unversity, Takestan branch. The identified word formation processes were coinage, extension, close interpretation, use of proper noun as generic, borrowing, use of antonyms, abbreviation, phonological segmentation, use of acronyms, compounding, clipping and blending.

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