Kornienko A.V. Wordplay in the new vocabulary of the pandemic. Rivista Italiana di Studi sull’Umorismo (RISU). 2021. Volume 4. Issue 2. Pp. 196-201.

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Abstract

The pandemic has given rise to a whole host of new words and expressions to describe the phenomena brought about by its occurrence. The entire pandemic vocabulary that has emerged over the past year reflects the people who are living through it, and the various states in which they find themselves: from fear and panic to an imperturbable calm, even a lack of belief in the real nature of the danger. An appreciable layer of this new vocabulary is the product of irony-oriented wordplay, which generates a comic effect. Such sharp-witted descriptions for objects, processes, and actions which have been disseminated by social networks testify to the positive, humorous reaction of some social media users to the threat which has emerged. Some examples of such neologisms are set out in the following text. Taken together, they bear witness to the enduring facility, even in such difficult times, for creative and playful word-smithery which, fortunately, stands in counterpoint to the language of hatred and enmity that is so widespread in Russian public political discourse today.

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