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China Terminology ›› 2021, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (2): 32-41.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8578.2021.02.005

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The Development of COVID-19 Word List from the Perspective of Emergency Language Services

LI Longxing1,2(), WANG Xian2()   

  • Received:2021-01-06 Revised:2021-03-12 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-04-07

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic around the globe made us acutely aware of the importance of emergency language services in public health emergencies. Terminology support provided in the form of word list development and terminology management is an important way of emergency language services, which ensures accurate and smooth communication. In order to help prevent and control the pandemic from the perspective of emergency language services, 364 single-word terms and 176 multi-word terms of COVID-19 are extracted from the COVID-19 corpus using the corpus tool of Sketch Engine. From the practice of producing this word list, we summarize a procedure of academic word list development and point out future directions for academic word list making and research in the hope of providing reference for terminology support in emergency language services.

Key words: emergency language services, COVID-19, English for Medical Purposes, word list, corpus

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