社会变革与语言变革:新冠疫情的语言  

Social Change and Linguistic Change:The Language of Covid-19

作　　者：贝尔纳黛特·佩顿 田兵(译) Bernadette Paton

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《英语世界》2020年第8期51-56,共6页The World of English

摘　　要：2019冠状病毒病(英文简称Covid-19)肆虐,致使数十亿人生活被改写,一些新词随之进入大众视野,包括来自流行病学和医学领域的专业术语、新的首字母缩略语,以及描述强制隔离和保持社交距离等社会防疫规定的一些单词。词典编幕有一个永恒主题:巨大社会变革带来巨大语言变革,并且这一主题从未像在当下这个全球危机中表现得这般真实。As the spread of Covid-19(coronavirus disease 2019)has altered the lives of billions of people,it has correspondingly ushered in a new vocabulary to the general populace1 encompassing specialist terms from the fields of epidemiology and medicine,new acronyms,and words to express the societal imperatives of imposed isolation and distancing.It is a consistent theme of lexicography that great social change brings great linguistic change,and that has never been truer than in this current global crisis.

关 键 词：语言变革 全球危机 社交距离 首字母缩略语 医学领域 专业术语 强制隔离 流行病学 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]