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<p>This paper undertakes the introduction to virolinguistics, a new linguistic discipline that investigates the virus language (virolect) based on the Hungarian linguistic material drawn from the scientific literature and our own collection. The goal of this work is to evaluate the effect of the pandemic on certain aspects of the Hungarian language: genres, vocabulary, communication, the linguistic landscape, and social media. The linguistic materials of these various areas play an important role in our society: they have a warning, entertaining, or stress-relieving function. Due to the restrictions, most studies have moved to the Internet. The methodological paradox of virolinguistics can be identified in the fact that it disregards certain scientific standards in order to assist linguists in collecting their valuable linguistic and visual materials.</p>
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This paper undertakes the introduction to virolinguistics, a new linguistic discipline that investigates the virus language (virolect) based on the Hungarian linguistic material drawn from the scientific literature and our own collection. The goal of this work is to evaluate the effect of the pandemic on certain aspects of the Hungarian language: genres, vocabulary, communication, the linguistic landscape, and social media. The linguistic materials of these various areas play an important role in our society: they have a warning, entertaining, or stress-relieving function. Due to the restrictions, most studies have moved to the Internet. The methodological paradox of virolinguistics can be identified in the fact that it disregards certain scientific standards in order to assist linguists in collecting their valuable linguistic and visual materials.

Virolinguistics: Introduction to the Study of the Coronavirus Language

Department of Hungarian Language and Literature

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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This paper undertakes the introduction to virolinguistics, a new linguistic discipline that investigates the virus language (virolect) based on the Hungarian...

Virolinguistics: Introduction to the Study of the Coronavirus Language

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 93 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2021-0015

Keywords
coronavirus, pandemic, vocabulary, linguistic landscape, Internet memes

© 2021 Béla Istók et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Virolinguistics: Introduction to the Study of the Coronavirus Language

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 93 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2021-0015

Keywordscoronavirus, pandemic, vocabulary, linguistic landscape, Internet memes

© 2021 Béla Istók et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
coronavirus, pandemic, vocabulary, linguistic landscape, Internet memes