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changing conditions ” Guba Lincoln, 1994, p.12. This statement means that
the researcher can process the data immediately and confirm the source or related references if there is uncertainty.
Besides, Guba and Lincoln 1994 add that it is only humans who can collect the confusing data and then process it so that it becomes available and
easier for others to understand it. It means that only the researcher who could do the analysis. After that, she interpreted the data in easier way so that other people
can get the meaning of the data.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The data in this study were collected from the articles of The Jakarta Post online edition. The researcher used the online edition because the development of
technology makes many people prefer to go online rather than read the printed newspaper. The researcher selected the articles by looking at particular topics
which have more compounds than the others. Those particular topics are Sci-Tech and Digital Life. Besides, the researcher paid attention on the date of publication
late 2014 until early 2015. There are four steps that the researcher took in the study to gather the data.
First, the researcher conducted the research by analyzing the online articles of The Jakarta Post
. After that, the researcher collected the information from the dictionary and the references theories. Next, the researcher selected 25 articles
which have many compound nouns from Sci-Tech and Digital Life columns.
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After that, the researcher collected the selected compound nouns found in the articles.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The data that had been gathered were the selected compound nouns. Those data then were analyzed based on the theories from Bauer 1983, Curme 1947,
Frank 1972, Katamba 1993, Matthews 2009, O’ Graddy 1997, Plag 2003,
and Quirk et al 1985 to decide whether this type of compound was made from Noun-Noun, Adjective-Noun, Preposition-Noun, or Verb-Noun. The researcher
did the analysis while also collecting the data. After the researcher explored all of the compound nouns used by national writers, they were listed in the first table
below.
Table 3.1: Forms of Compound Nouns Used by National Writers
No Compound Nouns Lexical Items which Form Compound
Nouns N-N
A-N P-N
V-N 1
Box office √
2 Blackberry
√ 3
Playmaker √
4 Upbeat
√ … ..
The table above contains the examples of compound nouns. However, those examples are not the real data. Those examples are provided to give visual
description to the readers of how the data will look like. Besides deciding the lexical items that form compound nouns used by
national writers, the researcher displayed the compound nouns used by
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international writers. The table is similar to the previous table. The only difference is that the next table exhibits the compounds used by international writers.
Table 3.2: Types of Compound Nouns Used by National Writers
No Compound Nouns Lexical Items which Form Compound
Nouns N-N
A-N P-N
V-N 1
Box office √
2 Blackberry
√ 3
Playmaker √
4 Upbeat
√ … ..
The table above shows the compound nouns found in the articles written by international writers. Besides, there are the lexical items that form those
compounds. Still, the data above are only the examples and not considered as the real data.
After deciding the form, the researcher decided the types of each compound using Katamba 1993 and
O’Graddy 1997’s theories. The types of compound mentioned in those theories are endocentric compounds, exocentric
compounds, and verbal compounds. The table below was used to present the data.
Table 3.3: Forms of Compound Nouns Used by International Writers
No Compound
Nouns Types of Compounds
Endo Exo
Verbal 1
Box office √
2 Blackberry
√ 3
Playmaker √
4 Upbeat
√ … ...
