Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Regensburg, language: English, abstract: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of changes in our everyday life which have also been reflected in the way we speak. New concepts and ideas needed to be named to find their place in the lexicon. It led to the emergence of many new words and expressions in the English language. Some of them aim at naming specific things like the new virus itself (i e COVID-19) while the others are examples of language creativity and wordplay, for example, the word cornteen imitating the American way of pronouncing the widely used word quarantine.Currently, it is almost impossible to say which new words will get a permanent place in the vocabulary and which of them are just occasional coinages that will disappear once the pandemic is over. In order to answer this question, more time is needed but what is possible now is to trace the development of the English lexicon. For this purpose, the new COVID-19 words will have to be documented and analyzed. As the pandemic has not finished yet and other words can theoretically still be coined, multi-step research is required. This topic has already gained some attention from the scientific community, but there are only a few studies that analyze the new COVID-19 words. Having said that, the present study is aimed at contributing to the documentation and analysis of the new coinages.
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Word-formation at the time of COVID-19
Word-formation patterns and studying of COVID-19 neologisms
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Word-formation patterns and studying of COVID-19 neologisms
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