TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Bueno, Pedro J.
A1  - Freixa, Judit
ED  - Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
ED  - Kernerman, Ilan
T1  - Lexicographic detection and representation of Spanish neologisms in the COVID-19 pandemic
T2  - Lexicography of coronavirus-related neologisms
N2  - The syntagma gel hidroalcohólico ‘hydroalcoholic gel’ or the noun hidroalcohol ‘hydroalcohol’ cannot be found in Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE) of the Real Academia Española (‘Royal Spanish Academy’) or other general reference dictionaries of the Spanish language. This is so despite the fact that, for well over a year and to this very day, we have not been able to do anything without first sanitising our hands with this product. It is one of the many neologisms that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought us, and these have become commonly used words that dictionaries should consider as candidates for future updates.

By looking at the dictionarisability of these neologisms, in this work we try to set their boundaries on the continuum along which they fall. “Dictionarisability” means, in our context, the greater or lesser interest of these unities regarding the updating of general language dictionaries. At both ends of this continuum, there are surprising nonce words, as well as neologisms that have recently lost their status as such because they have now been incorporated into the dictionary. To identify different groups on the continuum of pandemic neologisms, we take into account the criteria proposed in the current literature and, by so doing, we are able to assess the extent to which they are discriminatory. This will allow us to address the neological process and to reflect on the various stages of it, from the time a neologism is born until the moment it ceases to be one because it has been dictionarised. Before that, however, we present the framework of our study and refer to the mechanisms available for detecting neologisms in general and pandemic neologisms in particular.
T3  - Lexicographica : series maior - 163 
KW  - Lexikografie
KW  - Spanisch
KW  - Neologismus
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - Pandemie
KW  - Wörterbuch
KW  - reference dictionary
KW  - dictionarisability
KW  - general language dictionary
KW  - pandemic neologism
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-114240
SN  - 0175-9264
SS  - 0175-9264
SN  - 978-3-11-079808-1
SB  - 978-3-11-079808-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798081-005
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798081-005
SP  - 73
EP  - 92
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin/Boston
ER  -