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T1 Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish
A1 Sánchez Ibáñez, Miguel
A1 Pérez Sobrino, Paula
K1 Neologisms
K1 COVID-19
K1 Compounds
K1 Metonym
K1 Metaphor
K1 5701 Lingüística Aplicada
K1 5705.04 Lexicología
AB The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between formal and semantic neological procedures in the coinage of COVID-19-related emerging realities. Our study is based on a survey conducted to elicit the spontaneous creation of neologisms in Spanish related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to name a set of pandemic-related objects presented to them in a set of pictures. Naming strategies resulted mostly from the intersection of metonyms with compounding and metaphors with syntagmation. Participants preferred metonymy-based strategies to name objects they have fewer clues to identify. On the other hand, objects resulting from the adaptation of pre-existing items were mostly named using metaphors.
PB Elsevier
SN 0271-5309
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73621
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73621
LA eng
NO Language & Communication, noviembre 2024, vol. 99, p. 274-288
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 15-ene-2025