Author(s): Béla ISTÓK – Gábor LŐRINCZ

Title: A VIROLINGVISZTIKA RÉSZTERÜLETEI

Source: Sz. Simon (ed.): 12th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Section. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-376-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/3761.2020.83

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2020, 83-92

Published on-line: 2020

Language: hu

Abstract: Presently, more and more linguists take notice of the linguistic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Géza Balázs (2020) goes as far as denoting the linguistic variation produced by the virus as quarantine language. In our paper, we use the term virolinguistics to denote the linguistic discipline which studies the quarantine language. We see virolinguistics as an umbrella term, which encompasses seemingly different, but thematically (and in their focus) identical (thus pertaining to the virus) linguistic directions. Our paper is an attempt at outlining a new heterogeneous field of research that probes the linguistic changes determined by the virus. We see the task of virolinguistics in the analysis of both the verbal (and pictorial-verbal) methods of pointing out danger (function of warning) and the verbal (and pictorial-verbal) attempts at making fun of the situation (function of relieving tension).

Keywords: Virolinguistics, quarantine language, linguistic landscape, neologisms, memes, emojis

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