Booster
On the word booster
Author(s): Karla TvrdáSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Descriptive linguistics, Theory of Literature
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech; booster; dictionary entry; neologism; polysemy; users of Czech
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the dictionary entry booster, which was additionally incorporated into the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech. One of its meanings, ‘a dose of a vaccine that increases or renews the effect of an earlier one,’ has expanded in Czech rather widely in connection with the covid pandemic; however, four other meanings of this lexeme were identified on the basis of data from the Czech National Corpus. First the semantic structure of the entry is introduced, then I focus on how users of Czech orient themselves to the fact that the lexeme is a neologism.
Journal: Naše řeč
- Issue Year: 106/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 133-139
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Czech