Background of the Study

C. Research Question

1. How do the processes of blends word-formation occur in the film entitled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2based on Ingo Plag’s theory? 2. How are the component meanings of blends word-formation described in componential analysis? 3. How are the new meanings of the words built related to the context of the film?

D. Significance of the Study

The writer hopes through this research, the readers’ knowledge in the field of morphology especially on word-formation and semantics about componential analysis will be broadened. Moreover, the research is expected to give contribution for people to understand the processes of word formation and componential analysis. Besides, this research enriches the vocabularies of English for the readers. The research is expected to give a deeper understanding to get the real meaning of the terms occurring in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2film. Hence, the viewers, especially the children as the primary target audience, understand the plot of whole story and the messages delivered in the film.

E. Research Methodology 1. The Objective of Research

The research aims to find out about: 1. The processes of blends word-formation occur in the film entitled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 based on Ingo Plag’s theory. 2. The component meanings of blends word-formation described in componential analysis. 3. The new meaning of the words after combined together based on the context of the film.

2. Method of Research

Based on research question and objective of the research above, the method used is descriptive qualitative. Descriptive qualitative is the method of research used to describe nature phenomenon happened and relevancies between one phenomena and others. 4 The method of descriptive qualitative used by the writer is content analysis. Content analysis is any technique for making inferences by systematically and objectively identifying specified characteristics of messages. 5 This method is used to look for the processes of the word formed and the component meaning of the blend words of foodimals in the film.

3. Collecting Data

To collect the data, the writer watches the film. Based on theory of word formation by Ingo Plag, Plag states seven process affixation, conversion, clipping, blend, acronym and abbreviation, and compound but the writer focuses on blend process. The writer gets sixteen data of blend words. From the sixteen data, the writer analyzes ten data of blend words 4 Muhammad Farkhan. Proposal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra. Edisi Revisi, Jakarta: Adabia Press. 2011, p.4. 5 Ole R. Holsti. Content Analysis. In G. Lindzey E. Aaoroson eds, The Handbook of Social Psychology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1986, p. 601. that concern on food terms foodimals on the film. The writer focuses the data on blend words of foodimals because the film analyzed focuses on the food that is reflected from the title and those words are unique.

4. Technique of Data Analysis

Data acquired for this research are ten blend words of foodimalsfound on the film. The writer watches the film and selects the blend words of foodimals. The data will be analyzed using the theory of word-formation by Ingo Plag to analyze the processes of blend word- formation, and analyzed the component meaning of each word using theory of componential analysis by Eugene A. Nida with naming process and described using context in the film to find the meaning corresponding to the research questions.

5. Instrument of the Research

Instrument of research is the writer herself by watching the film, making the notes of blend words of foodimals found, analyzing the processes of blend word-formation based on the theory of Ingo Plag and analyzing the meaning component using componential analysis theory by Eugene A. Nida and context in the film. Besides the writer, the other supporting instruments of the research is the film to obtain the data of blend words of foodimals.

6. Unit of Analysis

Unit of analysis of this research is blend words of food terms that called foodimals in the film titled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2that