Linguistic prescription
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Linguistic prescription is the establishment of rules defining publicly preferred usage of language, including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Linguistic prescriptivism may
The Royal Spanish Academy, Madrid
Ptolemaic hieroglyphics from the Temple of Kom Ombo
Samuel Johnson, c. 1772
Neologism
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In linguistics, a neologism is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that has gained popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
Linguistic prescription
…stylistically apt communication. If usage preferences are conservative, prescription might appear resistant to language change; if radical, it may produce neologisms. Such prescriptions may be motivated by consistency (making a language simpler or more logical); rhetorical effectiveness; tradition; aesthetics or…
In Danish a bag-in-box wine is known as papvin literally meaning "cardboard wine". This neologism was first recorded in 1982.