Live Corp. Flint’s idol asks him to expropriate cleaning up the city from the living foods. The adventure of Flint and his friends begin when his idol asks
him to find and destroy the machine so that the foods do not interface the world citizens.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a film that uses unique food terms called foodimals and how the word-formation of the film encourages
the writer to do further study about word-formation and its meaning. The writer analyzes the formation of words especially the blend of foodimals
using morphology approach with word formation theory. She explains how the words are formed. Then, the writer analyzes the component meaning of
the words using semantic approach with componential analysis and relates it to the context of the film.
B. Focus of the Study
The research focuses on the word-formation analysis on blend words especially the food terms foodimals based on Ingo Plag’s theory and the
analysis of meaning components of the new words based on componential analysis by Eugene A. Nida of particular terms used in the movie Cloudy with
a Chance of Meatballs 2 directed by Phil Lord and Christopher foodimals are unique, do not exist on the Oxford, Cambridge, Merriam Webster dictionary
or any other well-acknowledged dictionaries and those words become a main focus on the story.
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.
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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.
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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
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Muhammad Farkhan. Proposal Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra. Edisi Revisi, Jakarta: Adabia Press. 2011, p.4.
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Ole R. Holsti. Content Analysis. In G. Lindzey E. Aaoroson eds, The Handbook of Social Psychology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1986, p. 601.
