TERMINOLOGIA, NEOLOGIA I COVID-19: ANÀLISI DE LA CREATIVITAT LÈXICA EN CATALÀ.

TERMINOLOGY, NEOLOGISMS AND COVID-19: AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL CREATIVITY IN CATALAN.

CATALAN language; COVID-19 pandemic; NEW words; SOCIAL networks; PANDEMICS; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; CREATIVE ability

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken every area of society, and language (most especially its vocabulary ), as a mirror to the world we live in, clearly reflects the deep mark it has left. What is more, this is the first great pandemic of the online era, which helps explain the huge influence this health emergency has had on lexical creativity since, thanks to social media networks, events have been narrated in real time for the very first time. This article seeks to study and characterise the lexical creativity of the Catalan language associated with COVID-19, based on an analysis of lexical neologisms related with this emergency situation and appearing during the pandemic. To achieve this, we have created two corpuses of neologisms – one terminology-related and another dealing with general language – and have analysed them linguistically and compared them. This process has helped us to provide a highly accurate portrayal of the lexical innovation in the Catalan language during this pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La pandèmia de la COVID-19 ha sacsejat tots els àmbits de la societat, i la llengua –especialment el lèxic–, en tant que fidel reflex del món en què vivim, ens mostra clarament aquesta profunda petjada. Es tracta, a més, de la primera gran pandèmia de l’era virtual, la qual cosa explica la profunda influència que aquesta situació d’emergència sanitària ha tingut en la creativitat lèxica, atès que, gràcies a les xarxes socials, per primer cop els esdeveniments s’han narrat en temps real. En aquest treball ens proposem estudiar i caracteritzar la creativitat lèxica del català associada a la COVID-19, a partir de l’anàlisi de neologismes lèxics relacionats amb aquesta situació d’emergència i generats durant aquest període pandèmic. Per assolir aquest objectiu hem constituït dos corpus de neologismes –un de terminològic i un altre de la llengua general– i els hem analitzat lingüísticament, contrastant-los, la qual cosa ens ha permès fer un dibuix força precís de la innovació lèxica en llengua catalana durant aquesta pandèmia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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