Spanish neologisms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changing criteria for their inclusion and representation in dictionaries

ADELSTEIN, ANDREÍNA; BOSCHIROLI, VICTORIA DE LOS ÁNGELES

Lexicography of Coronavirus-related Neologisms

De Gruyter

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2022; p. 95 - 125

In this work we describe criteria used in the process of inclusion and treatment of neologisms indictionaries of Spanish. Our starting point is data obtained by the Antenas Neológicas Network, whose representation in three different lexicographic tools is analyzed to identify features of the methodology used to include neologisms in dictionaries during the COVID-19 pandemic (sources and corpora of analysis, selection criteria, types of definition, among other aspects). Two of them are monolingual and COVID-19 lexical units were included in their updates: the "Antenario", a dictionary of neologisms of Spanish varieties, and the "Diccionario de la Lengua Española", a general language dictionary published by the Real Academia Española. The other one is a bilingual English-Spanish dictionary, "Diccionario de COVID-19 EN-ES", covering neological and non-neological lexical units related to the virus and the pandemic. Unlike other collections published as the pandemic unfolded, all three follow well-established lexicographic practices.