1. Meaning Classification Based on Meaning Change
The meaning of a word can be derived from meaning change. It means that the older meaning of a word is replaced or added with the newer one. There are
eight brand names which meanings are changed or replaced. They are Facebook, Twitter, Readers Digest, Blackberry, Time, i-Pad, Flyin-Saucer, and New York
Times. The analysis is shown below.
a. Facebook
Facebook is a very popular social media website that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg
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a Havard University student along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004 Phillips: 2007. Facebook
was created as a way for Mark Zuckerberg and other Harvard students to keep in touch over the Internet and get to know each other better
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Before the internet is popular
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Facebook n originally means a directory book which contains lists of names and headshots of college students Harper, 2014. It changes its meaning
because of the popularity of Facebook as a social media website. Beside its syntactic category as a noun, Facebook can also be a verb.
According to Dictionary.com, Facebook v means to communicate with a person or search for information about a person by using Facebook. For example: My
friend just facebooked me.
b. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read short 140 character text messages. It was invented
by Jack Dorsey in 2006 Carlson, 2011. Several years ago, before the internet is
popular, twitter means a series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds mostly associated with birds Hornby, 2000: 1289.
Twitter can also be a verb. Dictionary.com states that Twitter means to write a short message on the Twitter website. For example: many people are
twittering more and more these days.
c. Readers Digest
Readers Digest is a family magazine that is published monthly. It contains many articles about lifestyle, food, health, sport, news, and biography. Readers
Digest was founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Acheson in 1922. The meaning of readers digest literally is the summary for the readers is replaced by a kind of
magazine.
d. Blackberry
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