Oswoić pandemię. O najnowszych neologizmach w języku czeskim
Taming the pandemic. About the latest neologisms in the Czech language

Summary/Abstract: The present article focuses on phenomenon on communication during the pandemic, especially phenomenon of neologism to explore the creation of new words during the outbreak of COVID-19. The data were collected from newspapers, television programmes, Internet Forums, collaborative dictionary Čeština 2.0 and Neomat – electronic neologism database. Among analyzed neologism, numerous blended expressions, hybrid creations and few neosemantism were found. Most frequently, as the analysis shows, are blends and hybrid words created with a humorous purpose in mind and based on metaphor and meaning’s generalization. The most productive compound nouns is nouns with the stem korona- (koro-), covid- and zoom- and can be group into different semantic fields. It is not possible to tell what its eventual status will be in a Czech language. It may become part of the norm of the language or it may remain as nonce words.

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