Covid-19 Vocabulary in English Arabic and Indonesian Multimedia as Social Practices

Abstract

This paper studies language and creativity on the covid-19 term, social environment and social practices and multimedia that occurs in English, Arabic and Indonesian. The study attempts to find answers to the following questions: a) how are the vocabulary forms related to covid-19 used in English, Arabic, and Indonesian in providing information about the disease?, b) what is the lexical structure of synonym, borrowing, abbreviation, acronym in English, Arabic, and Indonesian? This study aims to describe the emergence of new English, Arabic, Indonesian vocabularies related to COVID-19 by using Carter’s theory. It used multimedia or news-paper, text, graphics, animation, audio and video information from BBC, CNN online other social media resources that show covid-19 vocabularies as the key standard procedure for collecting data. The criteria used to analyze the data were orthographic, sound-change, phonological, morpheme contrast, creativity, language and social context. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was basic-word vocabulary. The data are collected using three dictionaries as sources to get information and were analyzed using structural linguistics, especially phonology, morphology, and semantics. The result shows several aspects of findings such as identifying synonym, borrowing, abbreviation, and acronym. Using the multimedia from BBC, CNN online, the result of this study shows that there are 150 vocabularies. Using the linguistic elements, the vocabularies that describe covid-19 concept are classified into 102 words and 48 phrases.