TY - JOUR A1 - Kailich, Franziska T1 - The Introduction of English-induced neologisms in Spanish tweets: a case-study on covidiota JF - Frontiers in Communication N2 - This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota, into the Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus of tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark the word as a new, unfamiliar item, such as different ways of graphical highlighting, for example. On the other hand, the paper aims to detect possible indicators of an integration of covidiota into the Spanish language use in the tweet corpus compiled for this case study. KW - language contact KW - lexical innovation KW - semantic change KW - social media KW - verbal humor Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-274064 SN - 2297-900X VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mencke, Johanna T1 - Multimodalität als strategisches Framing – Die mediale Selbstinszenierung von Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (FN) in den sozialen Netzwerken JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The present study focuses on Marion Maréchal-Le Pen’s self-representation on social media. Despite her youth, the niece of the party’s chairwoman and granddaughter of its founder is a distinguished member of the French radical right-wing populist and nationalist party Front National. The corpus-based analysis of her digital presence on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on which this paper is based shows a specific use of linguistic and multimodal resources as a means of strategic framing of political content. In particular, an analysis of Maréchal-Le Pen’s use of searchable hashtags and @mentions referring to different political and non-political actors reveals it as a strategy of polarization between a constructed us and a negatively connoted them. KW - Web 2.0 KW - Marion Maréchal-Le Pen KW - Front National KW - politischer Diskurs KW - Twitter KW - Facebook KW - Instagram KW - social media KW - framing KW - multimodality KW - political discourse KW - technomots Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173990 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hesselbach, Robert T1 - <> – A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian, and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - France, Italy, and Spain are three Romance-speaking countries which – at least in Europe – have been affected to a very high degree by the consequences of the Corona pandemic. This paper examines discursive strategies on social media (Twitter and Facebook) by the three heads of government/state of the aforementioned countries – namely Emmanuel Macron (France), Giuseppe Conte (Italy), and Pedro Sánchez (Spain)- from a corpuslinguistic point of view. For this purpose, a corpus was created which contains all Twitter and Facebook messages posted by these heads of government/state from the beginning of February until the end of April 2020. By applying corpus-linguistic methods we find that all three politicians consciously use social media to sensitize, inform, and – in view of a dramatic pandemic situation – unite their respective populations behind them. KW - corpus linguistics KW - coronavirus KW - Covid-19 KW - political discourse KW - social media KW - lexical co-occurrences Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244251 VL - 6 ER -