Koronajęzyk – analiza terminologii związanej z pandemią koronawirusa w polskich i chorwackich przekazach medialnych
Coronalanguage - An Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic-related Terminology in Polish and Croatian Media Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected various aspects of social and economic life: daily routine, work, education, interpersonal and media communication. It had an impact on language as well; the terms which had rarely been used before have emerged (pandemic, quarantine, epidemiological threat, antivaxer) along with numerous pandemic-related neologisms, mainly compounds (coronaparty, coronavacation, antimasker, Covidian, Covidiot). These phenomena and language changes are global in nature, as is the pandemic. The two languages, Polish and Croatian, were chosen for the sake of comparative analysis. The aim was to showcase the mechanisms of the so-called coronalanguage (Pol. koronajęzyk, Cro. koronagovor/koronarazgovor) as a new phenomenon in social communication and discuss interlanguage similarities and differences. In the article, technical terminology and colloquialpandemic-related terms present in Polish and Croatian media discourse have been compared.

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