IDENTIFYING NEW VOCABULARIES AND ITS MEANING IN COVID-19 TEXTS THROUGH ANTCONTC 3.5.8 (IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS)

Abstract

One of the problems that have arisen by all people around the world is the spread of Covid-19 cases which have occurred more than recently. With this case, the presence of new vocabularies that are mostly not implemented by the wider community requires a special method to explain these words and their meanings. In linguistics perspective, this case is an advantage in the use of words and adding words in the dictionary because it is able to increase knowledge related to language for the community. The aim of the study is to identify new vocabularies related to Covid-19 and their meanings and classify words based on their class types. 204 articles regarding Covid-19 were analyzed using the Antcontc 3.5.8 application through the corpus linguistics approach. The results of this study indicates that there are several new vocabularies that are not known by the public because they are not listed in the dictionary.