doi:10.31885/lud.6.1.255engMarqueta, BárbaraMetapragmatic neology in digital discourse: Solid groundwork for Morphopragmatics and Construction MorphologyART-2021-125606This note addresses the topic of Judith Bridges’s focus article, namely -splain neologisms such as mansplain, thinsplain and covidsplain, from the perspective of morphological theory. I attempt to show that Morphopragmatics, a subfield of morphology, can account for the complex pragmatics of word formation processes like those in -splain neology. I propose that the analysis of -splain words as constructional idioms, under the framework of Construction Morphology, provides a suitable account of the pragmatic effects associated with the innovations in this lexical pattern.2021http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/10948710.31885/lud.6.1.255http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/109487oai:zaguan.unizar.es:109487Languages under discussion 6, 1 (2021), 38-42byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess