Abstract:Diante da pandemia provocada pelo novo coronavírus (Sars-CoV-2), causador da doença denominada Covid-19, o mundo assiste a um cenário assustador. Nesse contexto, a sociedade é bombardeada de novas expressões e termos. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a renovação lexical relacionada à pandemia por meio dos neologismos divulgados na mídia. O trabalho, de caráter documental-bibliográfico, foi realizado em duas etapas. Primeiro, consultando matérias jornalísticas das mídias tradicional e alternativa, divulgada… Show more
The radical social, political, and economic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are clearly reflected in language use through the appearance of numerous neologisms, most of which can be considered borrowings from English. In this article, we take a contrastive linguistic approach and focus on the emergence of new lexemes in the press language of four Romance languages (European Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and European French) with a special focus on language contact. Since no press corpora were available with specific data on the COVID-19 pandemic, we created our own corpora for the entire year 2020 using Python in order to compare how lexical innovation is dealt with in the four languages. Our results show that conceptual innovation, especially when it occurs abruptly, can lead to equivalent, often phonotactically adapted neologisms in the case of neighbouring languages. However, the integration of foreign words and the formation of neologisms also show language-specific peculiarities which are not only related to structural characteristics of the respective languages, but also to sociolinguistic and sociocultural factors. Our study elaborates on the relationship between these factors and shows the potential of contrastive and computational approaches for the study of lexical repercussions of language contact.
The radical social, political, and economic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are clearly reflected in language use through the appearance of numerous neologisms, most of which can be considered borrowings from English. In this article, we take a contrastive linguistic approach and focus on the emergence of new lexemes in the press language of four Romance languages (European Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and European French) with a special focus on language contact. Since no press corpora were available with specific data on the COVID-19 pandemic, we created our own corpora for the entire year 2020 using Python in order to compare how lexical innovation is dealt with in the four languages. Our results show that conceptual innovation, especially when it occurs abruptly, can lead to equivalent, often phonotactically adapted neologisms in the case of neighbouring languages. However, the integration of foreign words and the formation of neologisms also show language-specific peculiarities which are not only related to structural characteristics of the respective languages, but also to sociolinguistic and sociocultural factors. Our study elaborates on the relationship between these factors and shows the potential of contrastive and computational approaches for the study of lexical repercussions of language contact.
Neste trabalho, discutimos a compilação e o emprego de corpora no dicionário LEXICOVID-19. Com o software BootCaT, foram confeccionados corpora para três estágios do projeto. O AntConc e o Sketch Engine foram utilizados para análises. Inicialmente, o objetivo central da utilização dos corpora consistia na extração de exemplos e na complementação da lista de entradas. Após as análises, perceberam-se particularidades com relação às informações que poderiam ser extraídas, o que ampliou o uso dos corpora. Nossos resultados demonstram que, mesmo que o LEXICOVID-19 utilize corpus de forma complementar, a utilização de corpora enriqueceu as informações apresentadas pelo dicionário.
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