Coronavirus And Us: Metalinguistic Portrait Of Covid-19 Pandemic

The multidimensional nature of the language response to global situation coronavirus pandemic is considered on basis reflection which highlights pain points current state affairs. aim research describe and systematize indicators metalinguistic that diagnose anxiety in society. analysis undertaken based corpus material. source material sample Integrum (Integrum.ru). semantic dominants era are considered, lexical units pandemic, crisis, coronavirus, covid, quarantine, self-isolation, etc. quantitative increase use these 2020 compared previous 2019 presented. It concluded an additional aura inherent array reflexive statements about “coronavirus” words, conveys attitude towards words range danger. metaoperator scary word most frequent evaluative unit. dynamics studied shown: speaker tries free from negative increments; process axiological reorientation carried out; attempt provide a contextual increment positive character made. unit lexicon period, lexeme lockdown / called main 2020, separately. mastering actual traced according data reflection.