31.2573, FYI: Free Webinar - The Language of Covid-19: A Special OED Update

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Subject: 31.2573, FYI: Free Webinar - The Language of Covid-19: A Special OED Update

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:57:46
From: OED Team [oed.uk at oup.com]
Subject: Free Webinar - The Language of Covid-19: A Special OED Update

 
When: Thu 10 September 2020, 15:00-16:00 BST (UTC+1)
Book your place here:
http://tiny.cc/OED-Covid-19 

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 at oup.com
  
Who is this for?

- Linguists
- Lexicographers
- Sociolinguists
- Researchers working with the general and/or scientific language of Covid-19

This webinar will be recorded and will be made available for viewing after the
live session. All registrants will be notified.

 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Clinical Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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