RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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, COVID-19, Compounds, Metonym, Metaphor
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 pandemicrelated 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/10324/76043
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76043
LA eng
NO Language & Communication, 2024, vol. 99, pp. 274-288
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-jun-2025