Coronalexicon: Meanings and Word-formation Processes of Pandemic-related Lexemes across English Varieties

Gustilo, Leah-Espada; Pura, Cielo May; Biermeier, Thomas

doi:10.17576/3l-2021-2704-01

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“…The pandemic intensifies people's language coping mechanism from the pandemic's various stressors. The present study proves that the varied experiences of the people, the need to address them, and people's language coping mechanism paved the way to expand the vocabulary of different English varieties (Gustilo et al, 2021).…”

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How the Pandemic Fuels Linguistic Change: Lexical Innovations in L1 and L2 English Varieties

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Gustilo

Biermeier

2022

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Wars and conquests have always opened the floodgates of new words and meanings into the lexicon of the English language. Another kind of war that opens the floodgates for the passage of neologisms into the English language is the war on health during epidemics or pandemics. The present study utilized the News On the Web (NOW) corpus of English-corpora.org to (1) produce a word-list of COVID-19 pandemic language classified as medical, economic, political, and psychosocial lexemes; (2) identify the word-formation processes operating on the COVID-19 related vocabulary, and (3) determine which words are prevalent and unique in L1, L2 Asian, and L2 African varieties of the English language based on their occurrences in the corpus. The study identified 590 pandemic-related words drawn from the News on the Web (NOW) corpus dating from January 2020 to October 2021. The psychosocial category of the pandemic lexicon constitutes the biggest category of words identified from the corpus. The word-formation processes that operated in the production of the pandemic lexemes are compounds, blends, affixation, acronyms, and back-formation. L1 countries have the highest number of pandemic neologisms, prevalent or high-frequent pandemic lexemes, and unique word combinations. People produce neologisms as a coping mechanism to overcome various stressors and reflect their pandemic-related experiences.

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How the Pandemic Fuels Linguistic Change: Lexical Innovations in L1 and L2 English Varieties

Pura

Gustilo

Biermeier

2022

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“…Language development all around the world is growing rapidly along with the development of technology and life (Bruce & Levin, 2001;Vulchanova et al, 2017). As one of the functions of language in the development of technology and life, new lexical and terms are currently developing very rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic delivered by electronic media, such as English online news articles (Gustilo et al, 2021;Saed et al, 2022;Qamar et al, 2022). Further, these new lexical terms are trending among language users (Khotimah et al, 2021;Nabila & Abdulrahman, 2021;Pura et al, 2022).…”

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“Economy Struggle to Escape Coronacoma”: Compound Word Formation Processes of COVID-19 Related Terms in Online English News Articles

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Sujatna

2023

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This study aimed to uncover the types of compound word formation and how the compound word formation processes of related new terms in the COVID-19 pandemic's online English news articles were formed. This study used Lieber (2009) and Plag’s (2002) compound word formation frameworks. The data were obtained from ten news articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic using a qualitative descriptive method. The results showed that there were so varied types of the derivation of compound word processes, namely coordinative, subordinative, and attributive. Meanwhile, based on the stress of compound, the study found that there were noun compound, endocentric compounds, exocentric compounds, and copulative compounds. The results of this study indicated that attributive compounds and subordinate compounds are equally dominant in the analysis. Besides, the findings revealed that noun is the most dominant words than verb or adverb. To conclude, the present study provides both theoretical and practical implications.

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Coronalexicon: Meanings and Word-formation Processes of Pandemic-related Lexemes across English Varieties

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How the Pandemic Fuels Linguistic Change: Lexical Innovations in L1 and L2 English Varieties

How the Pandemic Fuels Linguistic Change: Lexical Innovations in L1 and L2 English Varieties

“Economy Struggle to Escape Coronacoma”: Compound Word Formation Processes of COVID-19 Related Terms in Online English News Articles

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