Morphological Processes Of English Neologisms In Instagram And Facebook

Abstract

The study of word development and coinage is known as morphology. Since English is the primary language of the Internet, technological advancements have resulted in the growth of English vocabulary. This study looks at the morphological procedures that are employed on Facebook and Instagram, two popular social media sites, to create neologisms. The concepts of morphological processes used in this work are drawn from a number of sources, including Murray (1995), Kemmer (2003), and Plag (2003). The word construction techniques that are employed include compounding, conversion, blending, borrowing, affixation[1], abbreviation, and clipping. A total of thirty-two neologisms were gathered between January 2016 and December 2020. This research uses a qualitative technique to analyze textual data. The study's analysis of social media neologisms that have spread across a wide range of platforms as a result of online social media was used to gather the samples. The most prevalent morphology used on neologisms is determined by analyzing the word classes and morphological process in accordance with Krishnamurthy's neologism model, which has three components: borrowing, lexical deviation, and word formation. According to the findings, blending and compounding are the most often utilized word construction techniques. The conclusion of this research is that language is always changing, and language users benefit from this since it makes them more conscious of how productive the terms already in the English language are.