Експериментално изследване на значението и адаптацията на композитуми с компоненти ковид- и корона- в българското езиково съзнание
An Experimental Study of the Meaning and Adaptation of Composita with the Components ковид- and корона- in the Bulgarian Linguistic Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the results obtained from a Polish-Bulgarian contrastive experimental study conducted and presented by Natalia Długosz and Andreana Eftimova in the book Syndrom postcovidowy w języku. Polsko-bułgarskie studium przypadku (raport z bedanas eksperimentalnych) / The Post-covid Syndrome in the Language. The Polish-Bulgarian Case (an Experimental Research Report) (2023). In this paper, however, only the data obtained from the Bulgarian respondents are taken into account, and a different methodology for data analysis and interpretation is employed as compared with the contrastive study. The results of the component and distributional analysis of the meaning of three composita: ковидтуризъм (covid tourism), ковидкупон (covid party) and коронапаника (corona panic), selected according to their use in Bulgarian and Polish media, show lack of a single predominant meaning as attested by the high dispersion of the answers in the experiments. The most clearly and consistently conceptualized compositum is коронапаника, whose second, obviously prevailing, component organizes around itself two concretizing semes in the meaning of the word.

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