Abstract
Neology is a natural process in the diachronic evolution of language, which founds a very fruitful gap in the language of journalism. This paper presents an analysis of the morphological, semantic and pragmatic behaviour of some linguistic elements coming from the Basque language, which have been documented in an ad hoc corpus from the Spanish press. The initial hypothesis is that formants from this language are used to activate mental frames that connect neologisms with terrorist violence in the recipients. This type of neology is especially prolific because it seeks concrete pragmatic effects, whether as part of the journalist style or of the media. We have reviewed the digital newspaper library of eleven newspapers in order to study the function of three formants: borroka, batasuno and –(t)arra. The conclusion is that the starting hypothesis on the use of elements of Basque to create tendentious neologisms is fulfilled.
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