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Pandexicon - How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality (Hardcover)
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Pandexicon - How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R510
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Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did!
They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two
years of surrealism and limbo.-Margaret Atwood This exploration of
the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into
the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our
anxiety and adapt to a new reality. When the pandemic struck in
early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases
that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as
"uptick" and "pivot," had existed before but now took on new
meaning, and others, such as "covidivorce," "quarantini,"
"covexit," and "shecession," appeared for the first time, their
meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary, we became
more able to adapt to change, to domesticate it in a sense, and to
reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic
(the "Before Times") and our early response to it through the peaks
and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world,
and ending with a contemplation of what the "After Times" might
look like, this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and
illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has
changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.
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