Booster

• Authors: Karla Tvrdá

Title variants

EN

On the word booster

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the dictionary entry booster, which was additionally incorporated into the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech. One of its meanings, ‘a dose of a vaccine that increases or renews the effect of an earlier one,’ has expanded in Czech rather widely in connection with the covid pandemic; however, four other meanings of this lexeme were identified on the basis of data from the Czech National Corpus. First the semantic structure of the entry is introduced, then I focus on how users of Czech orient themselves to the fact that the lexeme is a neologism.

Keywords

CS

Akademický slovník současné češtiny; booster; neologismus; polysémie; slovníkové heslo; uživatelé češtiny

EN

Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech; booster; dictionary entry; neologism; polysemy; users of Czech

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 133-139
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karla Tvrdá

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic