Word Formation Processes The Hunger Games Trilogy

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1. Word Formation Processes

Word formation processes are the processes of forming some words by adding or removing affixes, which are bound morphemes. There are many word formation processes in the morphology. However, to limit the discussion of this research, the researcher will analyze six out of seven minor word formation processes which are proposed by O‘Grady and de Guzman 2010. The processes are cliticization, conversion, clipping, blends, backformation, acronyms, and onomatopoeia. However, the researcher did not analyze conversion since it has been analyzed in depth in other study Bram, 2011.

2. The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins. It has three series of novels, which means that The Hunger Games is a trilogy novel. The first novel, The Hunger Games, was published in 2008. The second novel is entitled Catching Fire. It was published in 2009. Finally, the third novel is entitled Mockingjay and it was published in 2010. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 7

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter presents some related theories which are used to support this research. This chapter is divided into two main sections: 1 the theoretical description and 2 the theoretical framework. The theoretical description aims to review the theories of morphology, including the theories of the word formation processes discussed in this research. The theoretical framework attempts to summarize and relate the theories to this research.

A. Theoretical Description

This section provides the review of the theories which are used by the researcher. This section reviews two main theories. The first main theory deals with morphology, such as words, morphemes, and affixes. The second main theory deals with the word formation processes. It elaborates some examples of word formation processes, such as borrowing, clipping, blends, backformation, and coinage.

1. Words, Morphemes, and Word Structure

O‘Grady and de Guzman 2010 define a word as ―the smallest free form found in language‖ p. 116. They find that there are two types of words: a simple word and a complex word. A word that only consists of one morpheme is called a simple word while a complex word is a word that has more than one morpheme.