WORD FORMATION USED IN J+ NEWSPAPER

Abstract

— The purpose of this research is to identify how a new word is created from the usage of word formation, to understand the internal structures or forms of the word formation with their new meanings, and also to analyze types of English word formation process are used most often in the J+ Newspaper. The research uses a descriptive qualitative method; the data collection method of the research is through reading the newspaper, library research and internet research. Data analysis is using two approaches of morphological rules which are Morpheme-Based Model and Word-Based Model (theory of Haspelmath and Sims). The result of the study shows that: (1) Word formations used in J+ Newspaper, along with their forms, are 141 addition of affixes or Affixations (61%), 7 sequences of letters or Acronyms (3%), 8 shortening words or Clippings (3%), 71 joining words or Compoundings (30%), and 6 sound representation or Onomatopoeias (3%). (2) The most word formation process, which used in the J+ Newspaper, is Affixation as 141 words (61%) which is a common word formation process in English language. (3) All the derivational word formation are complex word and form a new meaning except clipping, a simple word from a shortening process, which means it still has the same meaning from the root but formed a new word.