Language Use in Memes
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Memes are a kind of communication on online media imitating humans' behavior which are able to present verbal and non-verbal language. In communication, using memes has become well-liked on the internet due to their interesting form of merging picture and text instead of sending a single message, thus, memes become a culture of communication. Memes are popular in many languages in different usages, especially, Thai. For these reasons, this study aims to investigate word formation in Thai memes and analyze lexical relations in terms of Lexical Semantics. The total of 981 memes were collected for this study, and half of this sample-490 memes-were analyzed. The result was found that language in memes involve in 5 methods of word formation which are borrowing, clipping, coinage, compounding, and acronym; moreover, words in memes show 5 relationships in terms of Lexical Semantics which are meronymy, antonymy, homonymy, hyponymy, and synonymy.
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