Open AccessCOVID-19 Lexicon in English News Reports Based on the Theory of Semantic Field
Author(s) -
Mengxi Wu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of contemporary educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2208-8474
pISSN - 2208-8466
DOI - 10.26689/jcer.v5i11.2793
Subject(s) - lexicon , covid-19 , newspaper , meaning (existential) , field (mathematics) , china , semantic field , linguistics , pandemic , semantics (computer science) , sociology , computer science , psychology , political science , medicine , media studies , mathematics , philosophy , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , pathology , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , programming language
Coronavirus disease, or simply COVID-19, has affected many regions worldwide. The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life. Millions of people have died from the virus. In order to facilitate people’s understanding of COVID-19, the present study adopts the theory of semantic field to analyze the COVID-19 lexicon that appeared in China Daily, an authoritative international daily newspaper issued by China. A total of 100 pieces of English news issued by China Daily have been randomly selected for this research. According to the theory of semantic field in structural linguistics, the meaning of a word cannot stand alone, but come into being with the meanings of its related words. Therefore, it is reasonable to try to understand COVID-19 as thoroughly as possible with relevant words, which form its semantic field.