EVILS AND WORDS OF THE COVID or socio-lexical chronicle of Covid-19

Date de réception : 30/11/2020 Date d'acceptation : 20/01/2021

Abstract

There are events and phenomena that mark the mind and remain etched in the collective imagination. They mark the history of peoples and societies and establish themselves as chronological landmarks. 2019 the world discovers the Coronavirus, which causes an unprecedented health crisis and quickly leads to multiple consequences and various impacts including linguistic. The pandemic is spreading and spreading with it a profusion of new words. It is to the magnitude of this neological flow and the massive return of certain terms that we will be interested in this article.