The adjective covidowy as the key
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Przymiotnik covidowy jako klucz do rozumienia rzeczywistości w czasie pandemii
The adjective covidowy as the key to understanding reality during the pandemic.

Author(s): Jolanta Jóźwiak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Cognitive linguistics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy (WSG)
Keywords: COVID;19 in language; meaning of Polish adjective covidowy (covid); media discourse; cognitive analysis; conceptualization

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the cognitive semantic analysis of the adjective covid in collocations that appeared in the widely understood media space during the COVID19 pandemic. The main goal is to define the thematic spheres in which the collocations with the studied adjective have become established. In addition, the aim is also to check whether the covid adjective has only a relational meaning, and if not, then to reveal the implied meanings, important in communication, next to the reference to the name of the disease entity. As a result of the analysis, 4 main spheres of use were distinguished: the general sphere, the medical sphere (health care system), the legal and administrative sphere, and the financial and economic sphere with thematic subgroups. It was also found that the conceptualization of the covid concept includes additional semantic elements depending on the sphere of use. The covid adjective turned out to be semantically very capacious and effective to describe and explain the so-called new reality.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 129-142
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish