Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse
In 2020, German media experienced a surge of publications about vaccination against COVID-19, which demonstrated a great diversity of linguistic tools that could shape public opinion on the matter. This article introduces a study of neological processes in the German language in the post-pandemic pe...
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| description | In 2020, German media experienced a surge of publications about vaccination against COVID-19, which demonstrated a great diversity of linguistic tools that could shape public opinion on the matter. This article introduces a study of neological processes in the German language in the post-pandemic period. The research relied on the method of corpus diagnostics to develop a linguistic reconstruction of the COVID-19 vaccination as a media event. The research covered 612 news articles published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021. The Voyant Tools software generated a corpus of news texts with Impfung for a subsequent analysis, which made it possible to reveal lexical trends, correlations, and collocations. The corpus analysis provided a linguistic reconstruction of the vaccination against COVID-19 in the German-speaking countries. Austrian and Swiss media discourse emphasized the need for vaccination for all citizens while Germany focused on the social aspects of vaccination. Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca appeared to be the most discussed vaccines in the German-speaking area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-802696154db74c40b389f5dbe007d6262023-09-29T04:58:44ZdeuKemerovo State UniversityСибСкрипт2949-21222949-20922023-09-0125447148010.21603/sibscript-2023-25-4-471-4804620Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media DiscourseYulia A. Lagazhan0Anna V. Lenets1Southern Federal UniversitySouthern Federal UniversityIn 2020, German media experienced a surge of publications about vaccination against COVID-19, which demonstrated a great diversity of linguistic tools that could shape public opinion on the matter. This article introduces a study of neological processes in the German language in the post-pandemic period. The research relied on the method of corpus diagnostics to develop a linguistic reconstruction of the COVID-19 vaccination as a media event. The research covered 612 news articles published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021. The Voyant Tools software generated a corpus of news texts with Impfung for a subsequent analysis, which made it possible to reveal lexical trends, correlations, and collocations. The corpus analysis provided a linguistic reconstruction of the vaccination against COVID-19 in the German-speaking countries. Austrian and Swiss media discourse emphasized the need for vaccination for all citizens while Germany focused on the social aspects of vaccination. Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca appeared to be the most discussed vaccines in the German-speaking area.https://www.sibscript.ru/jour/article/view/5495vaccination against covid-19neologismmedia eventgermanmedia discoursecorpus linguistics |
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| title | Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse |
| title_full | Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse |
| title_fullStr | Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse |
| title_short | Corpus Diagnostics in Linguistic Construction: Vaccination Against COVID-19 in the German-Language Media Discourse |
| title_sort | corpus diagnostics in linguistic construction vaccination against covid 19 in the german language media discourse |
| topic | vaccination against covid-19 neologism media event german media discourse corpus linguistics |
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