COVID-19 Neologisms in English
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What is the focus of the present study?

  • Investigating the sociolinguistic changes brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak
  • Identifying the type of word-formation processes associated with COVID-19 neologisms in English (correct)
  • Analyzing the global impact of COVID-19 outbreak
  • Exploring the effects of COVID-19 on different languages

    • How many COVID-19-inspired neologisms were compiled for analysis?

  • 156
  • 78
  • 208 (correct)
  • 312

    • What was the most discrete type of word-formation process identified in the analysis?

  • Acronyms
  • Affixation
  • Blending (correct)
  • Clipping

    • Where did the researchers gather the COVID-19-inspired neologisms for their corpus?

    <p>Social networking websites, search engines, blogs, and news articles</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has become part of our lives as a result of the surge of new words and phrases accompanying the COVID-19 outbreak?

    <p>New lexical and sociolinguistic changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

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