The object of this article is twofold: on the first hand, to give an account of the enormous and growing number of derivatives formed from Anglicisms in present-day European Spanish; and secondly, to examine the different derivational patterns found as well as the morphophonological, morphological and semantic variations involved in them. The article also tackles the lexicographic treatment followed in dictionaries when dealing with compound anglicisms. The data have been mainly drawn from the Spanish daily press of the last few decades and they are mostly part of those collected in the Gran diccionario de anglicismos, GDA (2017) and in the recent Diccionario de anglicismos del deporte, DAD (2021).

The purpose of this article is to examine some of the sudden changes that have recently taken place in the European Spanish lexis, especially in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the strong feelings that arose during the lockdown period, the linguistic processes registered have a marked emotional character and a political tinge, and respond to semantic and morphological motivations. On the one hand, usual resources in political rhetoric stand out, such as euphemism and, above all, dysphemism, which by metaphorical means tends towards irony and humor. From the morphological angle, the same end, blends and lexical creations based on acronyms stand out.

The purpose of this article is to examine some of the sudden changes that have recently taken place in the European Spanish lexis, especially in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the strong feelings that arose during the lockdown period, the linguistic processes registered have a marked emotional character and a political tinge, and respond to semantic and morphological motivations. On the one hand, usual resources in political rhetoric stand out, such as euphemism and, above all, dysphemism, which by metaphorical means tends towards irony and humor. From the morphological angle, the same end, blends and lexical creations based on acronyms stand out.

The object of this article is twofold: on the first hand, to give an account of the enormous and growing number of derivatives formed from Anglicisms in present-day European Spanish; and secondly, to examine the different derivational patterns found as well as the morphophonological, morphological and semantic variations involved in them. The article also tackles the lexicographic treatment followed in dictionaries when dealing with compound anglicisms. The data have been mainly drawn from the Spanish daily press of the last few decades and they are mostly part of those collected in the Gran diccionario de anglicismos, GDA (2017) and in the recent Diccionario de anglicismos del deporte, DAD (2021).

The object of this article is twofold: on the first hand, to give an account of the enormous and growing number of derivatives formed from Anglicisms in present-day European Spanish; and secondly, to examine the different derivational patterns found as well as the morphophonological, morphological and semantic variations involved in them. The article also tackles the lexicographic treatment followed in dictionaries when dealing with compound anglicisms. The data have been mainly drawn from the Spanish daily press of the last few decades and they are mostly part of those collected in the Gran diccionario de anglicismos, GDA (2017) and in the recent Diccionario de anglicismos del deporte, DAD (2021).

The purpose of this article is to examine some of the sudden changes that have recently taken place in the European Spanish lexis, especially in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the strong feelings that arose during the lockdown period, the linguistic processes registered have a marked emotional character and a political tinge, and respond to semantic and morphological motivations. On the one hand, usual resources in political rhetoric stand out, such as euphemism and, above all, dysphemism, which by metaphorical means tends towards irony and humor. From the morphological angle, the same end, blends and lexical creations based on acronyms stand out.