CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
The data used in this research are blocked words in their affixation that are collected qualitatively based on Katamba’s blocking theory. The list of words, as
the representative data for this research that will be analyzed in order to find out the answer of the research question of this research, can bee seen in appendix of
this research. Moreover, the data are 175 words that their affixation is blocked and the process of their blocking can be found in Katamba’s blocking theory, and all
of them are collected from Longman Dictionary. Actually, at first the writer got 346 words that their affixation may be blocked or frustrated by some linguistic
aspects, but the writer selected only 175 words from those 346 words. In the selection process, the writer chose only blocked words that their blocking process
can be found in Katamba’s blocking theory. Thus, the writer only got 175 words as the data.
The writer did the selection above because Katamba’s blocking theory is the main theory used by the writer to analyze the data and to describe blocking
process occurring on affixation of English words. In addition, the writer collected some information of those words that helps the writer in describing blocking
process based on Katamba’s theory, such as meaning of words, phonetic transcription, class of words, and origin of words. The writer took all of the
information from Longman Dictionary, but for the information of the origin of words, the writer took the information from Encarta Dictionary because the
information of the origin of words is not available in Longman Dictionaries. The writer needs the information above because the information can show
that the selected data are the representative data for this research. It is important because the data used in this research is only blocked words in their affixation that
the cause of their blocking can be found in Katamba’s blocking theory, and there are three causes of blocking according to Katamba; they are phonological factor,
morphological factor, and semantic factor. In addition, the information above also helps the writer in analyzing them. For example, the information of phonetic
transcription can help the writer to sort the words into category blocked words because of phonological factor, the information of class of words and origin of
words can help the writer to sort them into category blocked words because of morphological factor, and the information of meaning of words and class of words
can help the writer to sort them into category blocked words because of semantic factor.
Moreover, the writer wrote the data in a table containing 175 rows, and seven columns in order to make it easier and effective to be analyzed. The first
column provides the information of serial number for each word that will indicate the total words used as the data and help the writer to recall them in the data
analysis. Second column contains the words used as the data. Third column
provides the information of phonetics transcription of each word. Forth column contains the information of class of words. Fifth column contains the information
of meaning of each word. Sixth column provides the information of the origin of each word, and seventh column provides the information of pages in Longman
Dictionary where they were collected. In addition, each number in the table below contains a word as the data, but especially for number 147-167, each number
contains a pair of word that consist of a word and its antonym 147-153, and actual words and potential word from the actual words 154-167.
B. Data Analysis
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