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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2024)
The International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities"

Research Articles

Linguistic Analysis of Neologism In News Headlines During Covid-19

Published 07-07-2024

  • Zamna Sarfraz
    • ,
  • Simran Rashid
    • ,
  • Bisma Mahmood

Zamna Sarfraz
MPhil Scholar, Department of English, University of Education Lahore Pakistan

Simran Rashid
MPhil Scholar, Department of English, University of Education Lahore, Pakistan

Bisma Mahmood
Visiting Lecturer, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

  Social media is the most active source of information throughout the world. It plays a vital role in the flexible nature of language. In this revolutionary modern era, people tend to go for digital news headlines to keep in touch with the crisis of the world, which is the main pillar of social platforms. Due to the dynamic nature of language neologism becomes the most important phenomenon in updating new words i.e. dictionaries and sociolinguistic sources. The innovation of new words is not a static process. In the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become the most privileged source of promoting new words of cautionary measures throughout the world. Every new word or lexemes comes into existence for certain reasons as; the COVID-19 disease emerging with new words, which affect the new lexemes in dictionaries. This research paper investigates the variation of new lexemes based on one, two, or three entities by using the process of word formation in news headlines.  Digital dawn news headlines are used to get those lexemes related to the pandemic crisis from the duration of 2021-2022. The fluctuations of lexemes are formed by using morphological processes such as clipping, blending, compounding, etc. This research utilizes the qualitative and descriptive design of methods to analyse the morphological structure of lexemes efficiently.

Keywords

Neologism, , headlines, , lexemes, , fluctuations, , morphological

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