The word formation potential of politicians’ surnames on the example of the category of names of abstract features

Abstract

Research has shown that in contemporary political communication there are often derivatives belonging to the category of abstract feature names derived from the names of politicians. In total, I amassed 166 such units. I  analyze their word-formation structure and the meaning that results not only from morphology, but is also contextually conditioned. The most productive is the suffix -izm/-yzm (gierkizm, schetynizm, balcerowizm) and the suffix -izna/-yzna (komorowszczyzna, michnikowszczyzna). Formations formed with the help of other suffixes are definitely less numerous, e.g. -ość (kaczyńskość), -ada (kukiziada) or complex formants: -aizm (dudaizm), -stwo (kaczorstwo), -ostwo (pawłowiczostwo), - arstwo (palikociarstwo) and -olioza (palikotolioza). Other derivative mechanisms are used to create odantroponimic names of ideology and a set of views, e.g. paradigmatic derivation with the disintegration of the topic (olszewia) or complex derivation (korwinomania, wałęsocentryzm). The derivatives in question are most often used by people who do not accept the phenomena signed by these words. The high frequency of names is undoubtedly influenced by new forms of communication, especially the Internet, and the mediatization of politics.