Lexeme ZOOM, Adaptation to The Pandemic Environment: Ecolinguistics Study

Abstract

During his life, humans always communicate with each other. This has
been going on from the past until now and will continue into the future.
There are always developments in language. We are required to always
adapt to the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic also requires us to
adapt to the environment. Not only our life behavior has changed, our
language behavior is also affected due to the changes in the order of our
lives, especially in terms of the use of technology. The lexicon that did
not exist before then appears, the lexicon that used to exist has a
different meaning during the pandemic. The “zoom” lexicon used to
mean only zooming in, but nowadays it has a different meaning. Data
lexicon during the pandemic which is rooted from “zoom” lexicon can
occupy various word classes in the use of Indonesian.