COVID-19, Corona de nombre y apellidos Virus Disease. Las denominaciones del Coronavirus en la prensa española y rumana. Formación, significado y uso
COVID-19, name Corona, surname Virus Disease. The names attributed to Coronavirus in the Romanian and Spanish media. Word formation, meaning and use

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this lexical and semantic study is to investigate the names the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) received in the Spanish and Romanian media. First, we want to gather together all the names and the bilingual media corpus to analyse its formation and meaning. We are interested in the linguistic mechanisms which led to the formation of Coronavirus’s denominations and the sematic differences between them. The analysis revealed that, on one side, the lexical mechanisms are abbreviation and composition, and, on the other side, there is a tendency to use different names (hypernyms and hyponyms) to indicate the same meaning. Also, besides the semantic uncertainty, we saw a high use of different orthographic options. Over time, from the first signs of the pandemic until now, more or less precise meanings were created, which have gradually qualified their us, while also being discovered new scientific information.

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