ِA Sociolinguistic Approach to Linguistic Changes since the COVID-19
Pandemic Outbreak
الباحث الأول:
Estabraq Rasheed Ibrahim
الباحثين الآخرين:
Suzanne Abdul-hady Kadhim,Hussain Hameed Mayuuf, Haneen A. Haleem
المجلة:
Journal of Multicultural Education
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
With the current outbreak of COVID-19, our everyday lifestyle has changed
thoroughly. Not only had the economy, industry and health services
witnessed major alterations, but even our ways of communication. This can
be found in the linguistic c…
With the current outbreak of COVID-19, our everyday lifestyle has changed
thoroughly. Not only had the economy, industry and health services
witnessed major alterations, but even our ways of communication. This can
be found in the linguistic changes that have occurred to the English
language since the pandemic started. The main phenomenon witnessed is the
appearance of new terms and expressions, which are analyzed and
discussed in this paper. The main aim is to identify these developments,
followed by their classification using Krishnamurthy's framework of
Neologism (2010). The dataset consists of over 3 million tweets collected
between January and May, 2020, which is analyzed both qualitatively and
quantitatively. The results show that these changes functioned as tools of
coping with the major changes that happened to people's lifestyles globally,
and that social media has a significant impact on its spreading.
