The present study utilized the News On the Web (NOW) corpus of to (1) produce a word-list of COVID-19 pandemic language classified as medical, economic, political, and psychosocial lexemes (2) identify the word-formation processes operating on the COVID-19 related vocabulary, and (3) determine which words are prevalent and unique in L1, L2 Asian, and L2 African varieties of the English language based on their occurrences in the corpus. Another kind of war that opens the floodgates for the passage of neologisms into the English language is the war on health during epidemics or pandemics. Wars and conquests have always opened the floodgates of new words and meanings into the lexicon of the English language. In conclusion, the study illustrates the users’ awareness of the possibilities of the system and their ability to manipulate it in order to meet pragmatic, aesthetic, intellectual, and social needs. Moreover, the fragile correspondence between an orthographic word, a phonological word and a lexeme is constantly challenged by the creative use of graphemes and punctuation, word play, or semantically anomalous word combinations (W00d5b17ch, Celibate Rifles). In morphological terms, this is reflected in the manipulation of morphological rules, which results in the creative or deviant use of word-formation devices, such as affixation (Preprophecy), conversion (Damnwells), compounding (The Lovemongers), or blending (The Beatscuits). Language is thus used to break away from the norm, and also from what is foreseeable or even politically correct.

By resorting to the morphological analysis of a corpus of names of alternative music artists, the article evinces that language is a manipulable code through which users can convey their desire for self-assertion and their rejection of established commercialism and mainstream culture. This article delves into the connections between language as a rule-governed system of communication and music as a means to express subcultural ideologies and satisfy collective needs.

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