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QLB as a Telugu Word-formation Process: A Ka:rmik Linguistic Analysis

DISPOSITIONAL CREATIVITY IN QLB AS A TELUGU WORD-FORMATION PROCESS: EVIDENCE FOR KA:RMIK LINGUISTIC THEORY Chilukuri Bhuvaneswar, Proverbial Linguistics Group, Hyderabad (0a) Sound [Meaning + Function + Material Form] Means Experiential Reality Karmaphalabho:gam Action Effort Action Experience Result Linguistic System Ka:rmik Reality

(0b) Linguistic System

(0c) Disposition (1) Disposition

Karmaphalabho:gam Experience.

Again, whenever an action is performed, it is performed by a choice as follows: (2) Disposition Dispositional Bias Response Bias Choice Action.

Even if there are no two explicit options required to trigger a response bias, there is always an inherent set of options to do or not do an action and as such there will always be a response bias for an action and consequently a dispositional bias to trigger the response bias and finally a dispositional basis and disposition to create the dispositional bias. In addition, any type of action is hierarchically evolutionary in its structure as follows: (3a) Concept (Process) evolving into Pattern evolving into Structure where the concept and pattern are abstract (in the form of imagination) and the structure is material (in the form of sound). Ultimately, disposition embodies karma. From the perspective of the structure as the final phase of evolution of lingual action, it embodies not only pattern, but also form and meaning as well as disposition and karma in an a:nushangik relation (like the pot inheriting the properties of clay) shown by the symbol as as follows: (3b) Karma Disposition [+ Karma] Desire [+Disposition +Karma] Action [+ Desire + Disposition + Karma] [Concept of Meaning/Form [+ Action] Structure [+ Pattern + Concept + Action])

(3c) Lingual Action Pattern [+ Concept + Action]

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What is more, every action is not a mere patterned structure of meaning and form but it has another important dimension to it: it has a function as well. In fact, form, meaning, function, and disposition are also interconnected-interrelated-interdependent by the Principle of Radial Reciprocal Interaction: (4) Disposition Function Action [Meaning/Form Result Experience. Pattern Structure]

In other words, there are mainly two dimensions to every action: form and function. In our real life, we come across mainly two types of action: 1.formal-functional action; 2. functional-formal action: (5) Action: Formal Functional or Functional Formal. (6) Disposition - Semantics - Phono-Lexico-Syntax (Grammar or Syntax in the Traditional Sense) - Speech or Language

(7) Ka:rmik Reality Dispositional Reality Socioculturalspiritual Reality Cognitive Reality Contextual Reality Actional Reality and then (8) Disposition Desire Function Meaning Form [Process Pattern Structure] Action. Therefore, Ka:rmik Linguistic Theory is holistic in its framework and tries to avoid the pitfalls of the formal and functional theories. Wherever there is a choice, there is a response bias and a causative dispositional bias and disposition behind it: (9) Disposition Choice Disposition Bias Variation Response Bias Lingual Action

If we look at language from a process and product perspective, historical linguistics points out that in the formation and use of language there is an interconnected-interrelated-interdependent networking of i. cognitive abilities; ii. phenomenal knowledge; iii. living demands; iv. dispositional creativity; and v. experientiality

out of which only the cognitive abilities and dispositional creativity are genetically inherited but contextually harnessed. The remaining two except experientiality are externally anchored. Every word that came into existence would not have come into existence without the networking of all the four factors.

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III. Quotational Lexical Bifurcation: A Ka :rmik Linguistic Analysis

A ka:rmik linguistic analysis is chosen to motivate this word-formation process in a principled manner in the following stages: 1. Stage of Inspiration; 2. Stage of [i. Conceptualization; ii. Composition; iii. Creation]; 3. Stage of Application; 4. Stage of Transmission; and 5. Stage of Perpetuation.
3. 1. Stage of Inspiration 3. 2. Stage of [i. Conceptualization; ii. Composition; iii. Creation] In this stage, an effort will be made to fulfill the desire to create novelty and surprise by brevity of expression through innovation. It consists of conceptualizing the QLB as a process, as a concept of this and that as so and so in such and such manner in its unmanifest state as a seed, or as a vision of a house; its patterning and structuration in a semi-manifest state, as a sprout, as a blue print of a house; and its manifestation as a tree, as a built house. 3. 2. 1. Conceptualization What happened here is this: 1. First, there is the Dispositional functional Pressure for Novelty and Innovation. Owing to D.F.P., the Trait for Novelty and Innovation impacted on the Knowledge component and did Contextual Exploration of Variables and found out that no existing process gives the opportunity for innovation.

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QLB as a Telugu Word-formation Process: A Ka:rmik Linguistic Analysis Sa:ttvik Rajasik Ta:masik

Rajas News Reporter Karma Nature Sattva Tamas

Novelty Surprise Traits Choice of QLB Disposition Innovation Brevity D.F.P Desire (for QLB)

Knowledge/ Analyticity (Jna:nam) Knowledge of Grammar Habits (Va:sana:s) D.F.P = Dispositional Functional Pressure

Internalized Habits of Word-formation Network 1. Ka:rmik Network for Inspiration of QLB (10) Traits [Previous + Present + Future] Knowledge Insight

2. This knowledge is new and is activated by the D.F.P. (Dispsoitional Functional Pressure) 3. Fourth, through a process of dispositional creativity, he got a flash of thought from the new knowledge that words-within-words can be used to denote meaning-within-meaning and this can be done through the means of quotationally marking the new word-withinthe original word. Thus, QLB is seen as a word-formation process in its un-manifest state. The world is already made and out there before we came into it, and we use language to make out what is there in it after we came into it, and we use language to shape what is there in it as we can by creating a new awareness out of it. (11) Desire Insight Flash of Creativity Innovation of Q. L. B. Once this insight is obtained, he applies this to the concerned linguistic unit for QLB. 3. 2. 2. Composition 1. The desire for novelty and innovation is fulfilled by the effort of conceptualizing a new word-within-a-base-word by DESYNTHESIS as opposed to the familiar linguistic process of Reanalysis first by apparently splitting the word along the syntagmatic axis into two, and next by merging the split words into the single base word through an 4

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apparent transformation of the bifurcated words by conceptual pragmatic reanalysis by Q.L.B. along the paradigmatic axis. (12a) manthrula sibbandi staff of ministers and (12b) sa:ri: lato: in sa:ri: lato: Ga:ndhi:ma:rgam pattina sabha with excuses the assembly following the Gandhi-path (Va:rtha 31st July, 2009: 1) (12b) can be contrasted with the same news item presented in another newspaper Sa:kshi (31st July, 2009: 1) as (12c): (12c) sa:ri:gamalu Sa:Ri:.. and Ga another sorry high dra:ma/once again sorry high dra:ma (Andhrajyothi 24th January, 2005: 1) Hence, the supremacy of the conceptual axis. (12d) maro:sa:ri: haidra:ma

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Spirituality/ World View Society GuNa Dispositional/ Phenomenal Knowledge

Va:sana

Culture TGCP Graph 1b. Second Quadrant: Spirituality/World View

TGCP Graph 1a. First Quadrant: Dispositional/Phenomenal Knowledge

2. Structuration of the Quotefix Participants Cogneme / Concept Context

Relation

Action Contextual/Lingual Action TGCP Graph 1d. Fourth Quadrant: Contextual/Lingual Action

GCP Graph 1c. Third Quadrant: Cogneme/Concept

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QLB as a Telugu Word-formation Process: A Ka:rmik Linguistic Analysis