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

Abstract

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.

Morphological Analysis of Philippine Ecological Neologisms

“…These researches explored neologisms from different categories, e.g., social media, magazines, gay language, and periods, i.e., the global pandemic. Studies by Amiruddin (2022), Kang (2022), and Akut (2020) analyzed neologisms that emerged during the coronavirus pandemic by focusing on their morphological structures and processes. These studies revealed that most of these words are nouns and verbs and were created using compounding, blending, and affixation.…”