Sannies and Locktails: A Semantic Study of Coronavirus Slang
著者
山根, キャサリン
(Yamane, Kathleen)
奈良大学文学部
版
publisher
出版地
奈良
出版者
奈良大学
上位タイトル
奈良大学紀要
(Memoirs of the Nara University).
No.49
(2021.
1)
,p.61-
74
識別番号
ISSN
03892204
抄録
The world is facing an unprecedented global pandemic, affecting everything from our national economies to how we shop, work and socialize, and resulting in a staggering loss of life. The focus of this paper is a semantic study of the coronavirus slang that has arisen since the Covid-19 outbreak. The corpus on which this paper is based contains approximately 100 lexical items collected by linguists and word lovers across the English-speaking world, compiled mostly between March and June, 2020. The article focuses on two research questions: (1) What semantic fields are most represented in coronavirus slang? And (2) What are the creative processes involved in their formation? It Was found that while truncation, suffixation, compounding and other processes all played a role in the cretion of coronavirus slang, the most productive process was blending (covidiot 'covid' + 'idiot'; locktail 'lock [down]' + '[cock] tail' ), which accounted for half of the corpus.
