Research Questions Problem Limitation

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1.2 Research Questions

The research questions in this research include: 1. What elements make up nominal compounds found respectively in The Jakarta Post and New York Times news articles? 2. What types of nominal compounds appear frequently in The Jakarta Post and New York Times news articles?

1.3 Problem Limitation

The research topic that is discussed is limited to nominal compounds only because this type of compound is considered as the most common compound. Specifically, the nominal compounds that are used as the data in this research are those consisting of maximum two elements only although nominal compounds composing of more than 2 elements are likely. The reason is because the researcher intends to explore the most basic form of nominal compound, so that this research could easily give a clear understanding about the problems related to nominal compounds. As mentioned in the research background, two different newspapers are utilized in this research, namely The Jakarta Post and New York Times. The Indonesian newspaper The Jakarta Post is chosen to be the data source because it constitutes the most popular newspapers in Indonesia written in English. In other words, Indonesians are much more familiar with this newspaper compared to others, such as The Jakarta Globe, Inside Indonesia, and The President Post. Besides, The Jakarta Post is acknowledged to have accurate and educated coverage with good analysis Pakpahan, 2009. Meanwhile, New York Times is chosen because of its excellence in journalism proven with 122 Pulitzer Prizes PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 6 achieved by this newspaper. None of other newspapers have ever achieved this number of prizes. The website of New York Times is said to be one of the top websites since it was first launched. The online versions of both newspapers are used in this research considering that this version is practical and accessible. It is easy for the researcher to reach the data anytime and anywhere without having to deal with the printed ones. In addition, the online version of the newspapers is also free of charge. To find the nominal compounds in the articles of the newspapers, the researcher focuses on World column in the websites of each newspaper reporting about what is currently happening in the world so that the topics of the articles from both newspapers are more or less equal. The world topics cover issues happening in Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Middle East.

1.4 Research Objectives