LEXICAL CHANGES IN THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Cover Image

LEKSIČKE PROMJENE U BOSANSKOM JEZIKU UZROKOVANE PANDEMIJOM KORONAVIRUSA
LEXICAL CHANGES IN THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Author(s): Esmeralda Mustafić, Alica Arnaut
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, South Slavic Languages, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: Bosnian language; lexical changes; coronavirus;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show the lexical changes that are occurring in the modern Bosnian language under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic. The paper will show words and expressions that have found a place in everyday discourse, words and expressions that already existed in the Bosnian language but have now expanded their meaning, as well as words and expressions neologisms that have arisen through different paths of associations or metaphors related to the coronavirus.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 20-29
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian