Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS)
Vol 7, No 1 (2021): March 2021

Corona Pandemic, Foreign Terminology, and Society Symbolic Interaction Seen through Memes

Nurvita Wijayanti (Universitas Bangka Belitung)
Panggio Restu Wilujeng (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2021

Abstract

The Indonesian government policy to prevent the spread of Covid-19 has been interpreted in many ways by its society. One of the reasons is the use of English terminology when issuing the regulation. As a consequence, there are the appearance of lots of funny memes showing how society understands the government policy. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the foreign terminology used by the government followed by English terminology that was spread that was spread addressed to Indonesian who cannot speak English in major. This study uses descriptive qualitative method; as and the main data are the memes found in social media. These memes are analyzed linguistically using phono-orthography perspective to know about the cognitive acquirement of people in Indonesia. The next step is by having a sociological perspective using by having sociological perspective using symbolic interaction theory to acknowledge the social interpretation of the English terminology.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJELS

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

The Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS, online and print versions, is a journal dedicated to contribute to the improvement of English Language Studies in Indonesia. It is intended to contribute to human progress and development by way of English Linguistics, Literature, Education ...