The World of Coronaspeak : Mockdown, PCR and Surgeon's Finger / John C. Maher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, John C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Terminology.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book explores the concept of Coronaspeak, the language adopted by the global community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; it involves jokes, slang, public health slogans, cliché, and coronalit (corona related literature). In Coronaspeak we see new vocabulary and coinage like solomoon (honeymoon without the honey), elbow bump or Coronafussgruss (German, 'corona foot-greeting'), variant labelling in the Greek alphabet (omicron and delta), new drug naming (AstraZeneca), medical jargon (pathogen, R number), semi-technical (spillover, variant) and common expressions (stale air, rebound), and informal speech, dialect and nonce words (jab, jag, and 'the lurgi'). The book highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, and argues that they are part of disaster management, with entries from Italian, French, Japanese, German and Korean, taken from scholarly articles and print and internet sources.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

References.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Maher, John C. The World of Coronaspeak

ISBN:

9781527517110

152751711X

OCLC:

1390561857