An analysis of new English words created during COVID-19

Nabila, Ersyalia; Abdulrahman, Tryanti R.

doi:10.22373/ej.v9i1.9035

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“…As a new word, coinage is a process of word formation in which a new word or expression is intentionally or accidentally created [8][9]. For instance, the word Rona is clipped from corona.…”

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Morphological Analysis and Communicative Effect on Neologisms During Covid-19 Pandemic

Kang¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)

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Neologisms in linguistics refer to words or phrases that have recently been created or invented or given new meanings to existing words based on specific social and cultural backgrounds, which shows the vitality and creativity of language to some extent. In today's world, Covid-19 has undoubtedly become a hot issue of global concern in recent years, and new words have come into being. During the Covid-19 pandemic, neologisms mostly appear in the form of nouns, adjectives and verbs, and they all involve common morphological processes such as compounding, blending, coinage, clipping, acronym, borrowing and lexical deviation. The emergence and development of the Covid-19 neologisms are the direct reflection of the pandemic. These neologisms play an important role in cooperation and communication among people around the world.

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Section: Coinagementioning

confidence: 99%

Morphological Analysis and Communicative Effect on Neologisms During Covid-19 Pandemic

Kang¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)

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“…Language does not perish, but rather changes and evolves spontaneously over time and spaces. According to Harya (2016( there is an adaptation to the growth and alteration of social life, such as the level of education, culture, society, and technology (Nabila, E. & Abdulrahman, 2021(. Nordquist (2019 changes in the natural language will affect all sectors of language use (Nabila, E. & Abdulrahman, 2021(.…”

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“…This is reflected in the issue of Covid-19. Due to the interrelated nature of people as social organisms, these changes are brought about by language contact (Harya, 2016 as cited in Nabila, E. & Abdulrahman, 2021(. According to Nabila, E. & Abdulrahman (2021(, these new terms were created due to the current world situation, namely the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we live in a technologically advanced and convenient society.…”

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Word Formation of the Indonesian Covid-19 Special Terms

Budiono

Mubarok

2022

Buletin Al-Turas

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PurposeThis study was intended to describe the process of forming the Covid-19 outbreak-related special terms in Indonesian sourcing from English. MethodThe research employed a qualitative approach which a descriptive case study design. Its primary data consisted of words and phrases associated with Covid-19 taken from news articles on the Kompas.com page during March-July 2020 using a note-taking technique. The data were then analyzed qualitatively by considering the concepts of word formation in Indonesian. Results/FindingsTh research revealed that the forming of the Covid-19 related special terms were through absorption (49%), translation (32%), and through the creation of new concepts (19%). This indicates that the absorption of English terms into Indonesian was the most dominant process. English a global language was widely absorbed by other languages, including Indonesian. ConclusionThe research shows that Covid-19 outbreak-related special terms was classified into English terms and Indonesian terms. The terms experienced three formation processes, namely the absorption, translation, and the creation of new concepts

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“…During the pandemic, the Internet played primary roles as a source of information and medium of communication, and many new terms were created, such as 'zooming', 'coronials', and 'coronacation', which were found on social media (Nabila et al, 2021;Al-Salman et al, 2021). Moreover, people appear not to follow the standard of language rules, and sometimes, the grammatical system is bent on acquiring unique expressions.…”

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Stylistic Features of Netspeak Language on 9GAG’s Instagram Account

Yasa

Ayomi²,

Maharani³

2023

j.lang.lit.

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The emergence of Netspeak as a variety of languages cannot be separated from the development of the Internet and social media. The characteristic of its medium and the social media nature of communication makes Netspeak have distinctive and unique features that differentiate it from the more traditional form of communication, such as topographic and grammatical irregularities, as well as lexical creativity. This study attempts to discover the use of written communication features on 9GAG’s Instagram account as a popular community-based content creator. The qualitative method is applied by using Crystal’s feature of language variety model. The data was gathered through observation and documentation and then analyzed in terms of graphology, typography, grammar, vocabulary, and discourse features. This research found some distinctive graphic features such as punctuations and spellings, morphological processes and syntactical irregularities, distinctive vocabularies, and some discourse feature that presents unique coherence and chronological order. The finding indicates the rich features present in the data source, with the characteristics of informality and irregularities that often bend the rules of standard language imposed by internet users. Moreover, the finding also shows that the written language development on Netspeak is a way to overcome the barriers to expression in Instagram communication.

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An analysis of new English words created during COVID-19

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Morphological Analysis and Communicative Effect on Neologisms During Covid-19 Pandemic

Morphological Analysis and Communicative Effect on Neologisms During Covid-19 Pandemic

Word Formation of the Indonesian Covid-19 Special Terms

Stylistic Features of Netspeak Language on 9GAG’s Instagram Account

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