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The Oxford English Dictionary and the language of Covid-19

  • Since the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has dominated public discourse and introduced a wealth of words and expressions to the general vocabulary of English and other world languages. The lexical adaptation necessitated by this global health crisis has been unprecedented in speed and scope, and in response, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has continually revised its coverage, publishing special updates of Covid-19-related words in 2020 outside of its usual quarterly publication cycle. This article describes how OED lexicographers have analysed language corpora and other text databases to monitor the development of pandemic-related words and provide a linguistic and historical context to their usage.

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Author:Danica SalazarORCiDGND, Kate Wild
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-114224
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798081-002
ISBN:978-3-11-079808-1
ISSN:0175-9264
Parent Title (English):Lexicography of coronavirus-related neologisms
Series (Serial Number):Lexicographica : series maior (163)
Publisher:de Gruyter
Place of publication:Berlin/Boston
Editor:Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Ilan Kernerman
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Date of Publication (online):2022/12/14
Publishing Institution:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:(Verlags)-Lektorat
GND Keyword:COVID-19; Diskurs; Englisch; Korpus <Linguistik>; Lexikografie; Neologismus; Pandemie; The Oxford English dictionary; Wortschatz
First Page:11
Last Page:26
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Lexikografie
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International