LANGUAGE CHANGE AND WORD FORMATION: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF FASHIONED VOCABULARY IN CORONA TIMES

Abstract

This research paper is a corpus-based study of word formation during corona times. The paper is a Qualitative and Quantitative study founded on the framework of the Word-formation theory. 'The corona corpus' is used to retrieve the results of the 31 most popular coronavirus vocabulary used in daily conservations. Compounding is the most common word formation process involved in creating the language of coronavirus. The fashioned vocabulary of corona times from January 2020 to July 2020 includes Covid-19 with 1436951 frequencies along with other words such as Pandemic, mask, stay-at-home, lockdown, distancing, human-to-human, quarantine, isolation, sanitizer, transmission, work-from-home, and community-spread. The new jargon is used to talk about the pandemic, share experiences, spread awareness, or to make comments about strategies to face new situations all over the world.