Features of Language and Contents in COVID – 19 Hashtags on Twitter

ลักษณะภาษาและเนื้อหาในแฮชแท็กสถานการณ์การแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนา 2019 (โควิด-19) ในสื่อออนไลน์ทวิตเตอร์

Authors

  • thanwaporn sereechaikul Lecturer at Department of Thai Language, Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University

Keywords:

features of language, contents, hashtags, COVID – 19

Abstract

     This study focused on the features of language and contents analysis of the COVID – 19 hashtags on Thai Twitter. The hashtags data used in this study were collected from three periods of the COVID – 19 pandemic situation’s occurred as follows: 1) March – April 2020, 2) December 2020 – January 2021, and 3) April – May 2021. The results showed that, in the 97 hashtags, the most frequent type of grammatical units found was sentence units (44.3%), followed by word units (28.87%), phrase units (25.77%), and clause units (1.03%). In terms of language formats, there were three types as follows: 1) using English transliterations, 2) mixing Thai and English alphabets, and 3) using abbreviations.  Additionally, there were 11 topics of the COVID – 19 pandemic situation contents. There were 3 topics that were twitted by the Twitter users for all three periods as follows: 1) the COVID – 19 pandemic situations, 2) the COVID – 19 preventive measures, and 3) the COVID – 19 relieved pandemic situations.

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Published

2021-12-09

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021): July - December

Section

บทความวิจัย (Research Article)