Covid-infected Bulgarian discourse?

Abstract

В статье рассматриваются причины и следствия появления неологизмов в болгарском языке и их заимствования из других языков. The paper is a part of a bigger research on the advent of neologisms into the Bulgarian language as a result of the pandemic. The focus is on some of the new linguistic choices that appeared in Bulgaria mostly as a result of the global impact COVID-19 has. The neologisms encountered in conversation were listed and then compared with the linguistic entries in the reference books and their frequency of use was checked through search engines. One of the main conclusions reached is that despite the fact that the analysed neologisms are not part of the official lexicon they are widely used in the social and the mass media, which means they are an active part of the everyday life of Bulgarians.