“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kupolati, Oluwateniola Oluwabukola; Adebileje, Adebola; Adeleke, Akinniyi A.

doi:10.1080/23311983.2021.1947559

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“…The semantic features of the group of lexemes under study, namely the lexemes related to Covid-19, were analyzed for the period of 2019-2021. The lexical semantics approach allowed us to consider modifications of the lexeme denoting COVID-19 as an example of a global neologism that has been introduced in almost all world languages during the pandemic (Kupolati et al, 2021;Samigoullina, 2021b (Afanasyeva & Klimentieva, 2021;Samylicheva & Gazda, 2020).…”

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“…The lexical semantics method was deemed appropriate for the study, as it allowed the collection of the necessary information among the targeted various components of society. The study of Kupolati et al (2021) presents a detailed analysis of the morphological processes used in the creation of lexical innovations of COVID-19 lexemes among Northeast Southwest speakers. He considers them in two broad sections: lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic levels.…”

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Linguistic potential of COVID-19 neologisms in the metaphoric language of socio-political discourse

Ivanov¹,

Nikonova²,

Frolova

et al. 2023

Communication and the Public

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the features of the vocabulary of COVID-19 in English, which is an international language of borrowings. The secondary objective is to obtain new data on the emergence of a new vocabulary during the global problem of the COVID-19 pandemic. The method of lexical semantics analysis was used; 77 lexical units within the framework of the socio-political discourse have been considered in the course of the discursive text analysis. The most relevant categories of neologisms associated with COVID-19 were identified, and their word-formation models were analyzed. The active borrowing of COVID-19 vocabulary began from the English language. Based on the changes in the lifestyle, daily routine, and statuses of citizens, five categories and four groups of neologisms have been identified. The results of this study can be used for further analysis of the vocabulary of the COVID-19 period as new lexical units constantly appear and require their consideration within the framework of the linguistic potential and vocabulary of the languages found in the world. The study is important for replenishing the theoretical and practical base in the field of lexicology (processes of neologization, lexical borrowings, semantic features of new lexical units and their functions), media linguistics, journalism, and sociology as it takes into account socio-political factors.

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Linguistic potential of COVID-19 neologisms in the metaphoric language of socio-political discourse

Ivanov¹,

Nikonova²,

Frolova

et al. 2023

Communication and the Public

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“…That is, during the pandemic, a new gesture appeared-a greeting associated with security measures. A recent study reports that new words specific to COVID-19 have started to be used daily in Nigerian English (NE) in areas such as education, media, healthcare, and religion (Oluwateniola et al, 2021). Lexical innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic were formed primarily in the English language (Balabekova et al, 2022).…”

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Lexico-Semantic Change in the Kazakh Language of the COVID Era

Adilova

Balabekova

Tuite

et al. 2023

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This article discusses lexical and semantic changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we describe semantic shifts, new concepts, and neologisms associated with the COVID-19 pandemic based on the results of an associative survey. A total of 142 respondents voluntarily participated in our online survey. The term ‘coronavirus’ was taken as a stimulus word. Respondents had to answer what colour and number the word ‘coronavirus’ is associated with. The results of the study show that the stimulus ‘coronavirus’ in the minds of people activates the colours red, green, black, blue, yellow and very weakly causes associations with brown, white, gold, purple, colourless, as well as the frequency of the number 19. Additionally, according to the results of the study, it can be said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, negative meanings of colourative vocabulary were actualized (except green, because this colour began to symbolize safety), and numbers and some new concepts that have a nonpositive colouring appeared.

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“…Hence, the government was stereotyped as 'fake' and 'fraudulent' while adjudging the Coronavirus as a 'hoax. ' Other linguistic studies have analysed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigerian languages (Obiorah, 2021;Kupolati, Adebileje & Adeleke, 2021;Inyima & Donna-Ezinne, 2022;Onwukwe & Emezue, 2023). The studies examined the roles of indigenous languages and Nigerian English in COVID-19 information dissemination among rural dwellers in Nigeria.…”

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“…On the other hand, Nwosu and Donna-Ezinne, using Functional Linguistic Approach, observed that Nigerian English was developed via morphemic coinages, phrasal restructuring and syntactic compositions, among others, during the pandemic. Lending credence to these scholarly views, Kupolati, Adebileje and Adeleke (2021) argue that the pandemic aided the introduction of new words into the Nigerian English (NE) in business, education, social media and health sectors, providing a COVID-19 vocabulary corpus for the Nigerian English Vocabulary.…”

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‘They Hid Our Palliatives and Now They Want to give us Vaccine’: Recontextualizations of COVID-19 Facebook Vaccination Discourses of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

Udoumoh, Onyinyechi Blessing,

Ogbonna, Lilian Chinenyenwa,

Dr. Vivien Bello-Osagie

2023

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This study deployed Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to investigate four (4) Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (hereafter, NCDC) COVID-19 vaccination updates and two hundred (200) ensuing reactions among Nigerian Facebook users. The study intends to ascertain how such reactions reflected the socio-political context and the intertexts in which the COVID-19 vaccination was embedded and how it affected the vaccine's receptiveness in Nigeria. NCDC was established in the year 2011 as a government health agency that deals with the outbreak of infectious diseases. The findings of the study revealed that NCDC ideologically framed itself as health experts, solution providers and health interventionists via the use of nomination strategies, such as proper nouns, dietic and professional anthroponyms, which are meant to trigger optimism among Nigerians. However, reactions to the COVID-19 updates have been re-contextualized to capture the socio-political intertexts at the time, which have affected the inoculation exercise. Respondents negatively framed the Nigerian government as the main social actors, engaging dialectic and phoric expressions as out-group markers, tropes such as metaphors and similes, among others, as topos for rejecting the vaccine. The study argues that COVID-19 vaccination reluctance and abstinence by Nigerians were largely informed by presupposed socio-historic and socio-cognitive factors, such as topos of corruption and distrust of government (35%), bad governance and demand for responsible government (15.5%) among other factors which are forms of protest for the civic rights of the people.

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“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Linguistic potential of COVID-19 neologisms in the metaphoric language of socio-political discourse

Linguistic potential of COVID-19 neologisms in the metaphoric language of socio-political discourse

Lexico-Semantic Change in the Kazakh Language of the COVID Era

‘They Hid Our Palliatives and Now They Want to give us Vaccine’: Recontextualizations of COVID-19 Facebook Vaccination Discourses of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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