The Indonesian Terms of Disease Names: A Corpus Linguistic Study

The Indonesian terms of disease names are unique. Despite being different from their medical terms, contain elements figurative language. This study aims to analyze stylistic naming. data were Corpora articles, social media forums, and online news on health for 2013-2023, involving 1.206.281.985 tokens the Indonesian-Leipzig Collection (ILC) 39.294 collected 2023 Health Forum Corpus (HF). Data analysis concerned wordlist collocation feature see frequency, trend, pattern, concordance examined language style names. does not find any evidence changes in over past decade, such as “penyakit jantung” (heart disease), "headache," "hospital." However, it uncover some interesting findings regarding formation Affixation compounding primary word processes. hyperbolic figures, "gagal ginjal" (chronic kidney symbolic "kaki gajah" (filariasis) "mata ikan" (clavus). In conclusion, diseases followed a particular but specific terminology used might vary based linguistic factors cultural understanding.