Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-19

Sun, Lei; Yang, Ruiying; Huang, Chu‐Ren

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103095

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“…COVID-19 itself is a neologism) 21 , but do not aim to comprehensively map neologistic phenomena in connection with the syndemic. It has fallen to lexicography and scholarly works to provisionally record and collect syndemic-related neologisms (see, among others, Akut 2020; Al-Salman and Haider 2021; Asif et al 2021;Lei, Yang, and Huang 2021;Roig-Marín 2021;Mat tiello 2022).…”

Section: Covid-19 and Neologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Terminology for Medical Journalism: Terminological Resources, Neology, and the COVID-19 Syndemic

Anselmo

2023

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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This article aims to investigate the terminological needs of journalists reporting medical news in the context of the current COVID-19 syndemic. It presents the work context – medical journalism – and the professional group selected – dubbed ‘occasional medical journalists’, a subset of medical journalists – and analyses their terminological needs. It further offers a critical description of a selection of terminological and terminographic resources currently available to the professional category at hand, highlighting room for improvement. Lastly, it briefly explores the interdependence between the professional group, the syndemic, and neology, and provides a sample ad hoc terminological entry conceived to facilitate the correct use of Coronavirus-related terminology in the press.

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Section: Covid-19 and Neologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Terminology for Medical Journalism: Terminological Resources, Neology, and the COVID-19 Syndemic

Anselmo

2023

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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“…A considerable amount of literature related to language use under the pandemic circumstances has been published over the past two years. Across languages attempts have been made to track coronavirusassociated language changes, specifically, emergence of neologisms and naming strategies (Cappuzzo, 2020;Lei et al, 2021), political and social aspects of pandemic language (Mocini, 2020;Ostanina, 2021;Belova & Georgieva, 2021). A number of studies focused on confrontation-related language used by pro-and antivaccination speakers (Coltman-Patel et al, 2022) and pandemic narratives (Sárdi, 2022).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Covid-Affected Linguistic Landscape: A Case of City Signs in Public Places

TIVYAEVA,

CHEKMAEVA

2023

Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum)

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The article discusses recent changes to the urban linguistic landscape that were instigated by the spread of the coronavirus infection and expedient public code introduced by city authorities to regulate life in the pandemic-stricken megalopolis. It focuses on relevant signs and images as new entities of the multimodal dialog between the city and its residents. While before 2019 city signs were elements of the city navigation system, the pandemic realities changed their status and role in urban linguistic landscape. The study is based on a dataset of visual records collected across Moscow’s public locations over the years 2020 through 2022. Empirical data are analyzed for their function, language form, and multimodal components. The results suggest that city signs conveying COVID-related messages to city residents perform four major functions: they warn about the virus and health risks, prescribe certain behavioral patterns, motivate to fight the pandemic, and inform about safety measures undertaken by city facilities and businesses. The functional specificity of city signs tends to determine their verbal and non-verbal representation. The study also explores the interplay of visual and verbal components in COVID-affected urban communication and offers insights into new discourse strategies adhered to by the megalopolis when interacting with different social groups in key pandemic moments.

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“…So, there was a need to designate many new concepts and a huge number of new words appeared in the language: word-formation and semantic neologisms, borrowings, etc. A large number of different studies have been devoted to this problem [1][2][3][4][5] and others.…”

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confidence: 99%

Current trends in language ecosystem for a sustainable world

Murugova,

Evtushenko

2023

E3S Web Conf.

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The article touches upon the issues of neology and ecolinguistics that are relevant for modern linguistics. From the point of view of ecolinguistics, language is an ecosystem capable of constantly changing and self-regulating. In this ecosystem, new words are constantly being formed, the meanings of old words are changing, which reflects the most significant processes and changes taking place in society at the moment of its development. The aim of this article is to identify current trends in language development reflecting the sustainable development of modern society: the features of the functioning of derived neologisms in modern English, the role of borrowings in replenishing the vocabulary of the language, as well as the study and determination of the specifics of their use in various spheres of life. The studied neologisms reflect almost all areas of life of modern English-speaking society, while most of the new lexical units are vocabulary related to everyday life, household needs, medicine and science caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-19

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Terminology for Medical Journalism: Terminological Resources, Neology, and the COVID-19 Syndemic

Terminology for Medical Journalism: Terminological Resources, Neology, and the COVID-19 Syndemic

Covid-Affected Linguistic Landscape: A Case of City Signs in Public Places

Current trends in language ecosystem for a sustainable world

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