Writer / NIM
MARCILYA DWI SUKARYADI / 321417027
Study Program
S1 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Advisor 1 / NIDN
Dr. HANISAH HANAFI, M.Pd. / 0021016504
Advisor 2 / NIDN
FAHRIA MALABAR, S.Pd, M.A / 0005068601
Abstract
The pandemic of COVID-19 that has been happening since 2019 led to the emergence of some registers that started to appear during the pandemic of COVID-19, so this study has a purpose to identify the use of register in COVID-19. Most people started to interact using some special language that are used in COVID-19 situation called as register. Register is one of the language varieties that can actually be found from all aspects of language. Register has a characteristic that make it easier to recognize it only by reading the sentence that contains the use of the register itself. Register is a communication that is use in particular situation (Budiarsa, 2015, p. 386). So, the object of this study is to find the register in COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher focused on analysing the use of the register in COVID-19. The data have been collected from some articles. The researcher used the theory by Biber & Conrad to identify the data. There are three major components of register, they are the situational context, the linguistics features, and the relationship function of both situational context and linguistic features (Biber & Conrad, 2019, p. 6). So, the researcher used that theory to identify the data that have found. The researcher used qualitative method with Discourse analysis to analyse this research. The results of this study showed the registers in COVID-19 were categorized into three linguistic features, namely word formation, word classes, and phrase classes. Word formations were consisted of abbreviation, conversion, and multiple process. Word classes were consisted of noun and adjective. Phrase classes were consisted of noun phrase and adjective phrase.
Keywords: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), register, pandemic
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