The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things, and one of them is the English language. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has been updated to reflect some of these changes. If you're interested in finding out more about the updates, they are having a webinar on September 10th with some of their linguists to discuss the changes.
Great social change tends to bring great linguistic change, and this has never been truer than in the Covid-19 crisis.
We have seen new coinages; the adaptation of existing terms to talk about the pandemic and its social and economic impacts; and the widespread use of terms previously restricted to fields such as epidemiology and medicine. In order to take account of these developments, the OED has been updated outside of our regular quarterly releases.
Join OED editors Fiona McPherson, Trish Stewart, and Kate Wild for a live interactive online session where they will present the rationale behind these special updates, the processes involved, and the resources used.
This session will cover:
• how the words are chosen
• inherent challenges in defining the terms
• an in-depth look at the science words we've added and updated
• an in-depth look at some of the general terms
• using corpora to track changes in language, with examples
• available information and how to access it: word frequency, wordlists
• future developments as the pandemic-related language evolves
• Q&A time – bring your questions to the panellists, or send them in advance to oed.uk@oup.com
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