Dicionário da COVID-19: compilação do corpus e levantamento dos termos

COVID-19 Dictionary: compilation of the corpus and terminological identification process

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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v51i1.3231

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This paper presents a preliminary study on the topic of COVID-19 based on two study corpora: the Official Corpus, which is composed of 993 texts on the coronavirus published in official vehicles, and the Journalistic Corpus, which has 460 texts on this theme. In this work, the initial phases of the Dictionary in preparation are presented and they refer to the constitution of the study corpus. Some preliminary observations that the constituted corpus reveals regarding the COVID-19 terminology are also outlined. In this sense, this paper discusses the general characteristics of these texts that are related not only to statistical data, but also to the semantic information built into them. In a particular way, it is noticed that, through the recurrent lexical patterns found in these two corpora, the pandemic brought changes at the vocabulary level. These linguistic transformations reflect new ways of “living” and “living together” that were imposed on us in order to contain the contagion and the expansion of the new coronavirus.
Keywords: COVID-19; terminology; official corpus; journalistic corpus.

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2022-05-31

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Costa, L. A. da C., Curti-Contessoto, B., & Alves, I. M. (2022). Dicionário da COVID-19: compilação do corpus e levantamento dos termos: COVID-19 Dictionary: compilation of the corpus and terminological identification process. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 51(1), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v51i1.3231

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