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  -