TWITAUTOLOGY: NEOLOGISM IN K-POP FANBASE ON TWITTER

Every fandom has a unique pattern of language usage to communicate with one another. Different fandoms, of course, affect their language patterns respectively, because the neologisms that are formed can represent the identity of each fandom. K-Pop fandom itself has a wide community all over the world that is connected through a virtual network. Twitter is a virtual data network platform used by many members of the K-Pop fandom. To find out about at what level neologism in K-Pop fandom on Twitter is formed, the data are collected by sampling tweets of Twitter users who are part of three K-Pop boy group fandom namely Seventeen, Stray Kids and Treasure, who use Vocabulary, Orthography, Grammar and Pragmatic in their tweets using descriptive qualitative design. The findings reveal that some language aspects in K-Pop fandom share different knowledge from the regular language. The results show that the K-Pop fandom community tend to create neologisms based on the identity of the specific idol they like, not only within the K-Pop fandom itself, which makes it unique. This research provides insight that neologism exists in the K-Pop fandom community on twitter to provide the community members an easier way to communicate without having to explain the context.


Introduction
Neologism seems to be popular in the Korean language. A study of Sang-cheol & Egorova (2021) shows that neologism has been a common occurrence in the Korean language.
Neologism itself is newly created words or phrases that have new meaning that stands for something new, or words or phrases borrowed from another language used and accepted as a regular term within a community. Not only the new words, neologism also refers to old words with new meaning (Liu & Liu, 2014).
Such phenomenon becomes more popular in South Korea as the country is infiltrated with various cultures (Kim, 2016).
It can be concluded that the Korean language has been enriched with the presence of neologisms.
Neologism as the part of linguistics will continue to evolve following the dynamic of the community. According to Ahmad t h e l a n g u a g e c h a n g e q u i c k l y (Handabura, 2020).  This shows that the written language on the internet is not far from our everyday spoken language. The difference lies in the struggle of delivering the right information that needs to be expressed through the limited virtual media. A spokeninduced written language is sure to lose a lot of aspects such as intonation, expression, and body l a n g u a g e . I n a n a l y z i n g language is easy to be ambiguous, misleading or offensive so we need to understand how electronically mediated language works. One way to help understand the ambiguity of the internet language is through neologism. The latter will be described in the next sub-section.

Neologism
Neologism could be described and Twitter, in particular, are highly globalized places (Grandjean, 2016).
This research is looking for the language that is used by the K-Pop fanbase community. The researcher found an interesting fact that language in K-Pop fandom shared different knowledge with regular l a n g u a g e . I t m e a n s t h a t i n community, they need to share the same knowledge about the language they used so they could communicate w e l l a n d t h e r e w i l l b e n o misunderstanding in communication.
In the K-Pop Fanbase community they tend to make neologisms based on the speciality of idol they stand or identity of the idol they stand so it will not make it ordinary or common.

Language Change
Based on the source data that is

a. Vocabulary
On the level of vocabulary classification, the word in the internet especially on twitter, it was the most area that readily manifested change. The social web is about using the internet to enact relationships rather than simply share information, although the two functions are clearly interconnected (Zappavigna, 2012). Therefore, we could find syntactic patterns that are not found in conventional printed works.

d. Pragmatics
The

Identity
According to Yus (

Conclusion
Neologism is a form of study that discusses a word, phrase, term, and symbol that appears in the wider community which may still be