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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION
A. Previous Research
As consideration, the writer lists two theses with similar topics about Word-Formation and Componential Analysis. The first thesis was done by
Laila Afifa with her thesis entitled “An Analysis of Word Formation and Meaning Component in the Mini Dictionary on Owl City Blog
http:owlcityblog.com.”
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The focus of her research is the word formation process and the meaning components of the new words in the mini dictionary
on Owl City Blog http:owlcityblog.com. She uses the Word-Formation theory by George Yule for analyzing
word formation and componential analysis by Eugene A. Nida with paraphrasing technique in analyzing the meaning component. The result of the
analysis is the most word formation processes used in the Mini Dictionary on Owl City Blog are multiple processes, blending and derivation. The word
formation and meaning component are related to each other. The second thesis was done by Alif Ramdhani entitled “Word-
Formation and Componential Analysis on the Names of Music Festival in Indonesia 2011.”
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The focus of his research is the word-formation and component meaning of new words in the names of music festival 2011. He
uses word formation theory by Ingo Plag and componential analysis with
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Laila Afifa. An Analysis of Word Formation and Meaning Component in the Mini Dictionary Owl City Blog http:owlcityblog.com. Jakarta: Uin Syarif Hidayatullah, 2012, p.iv.
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Alif Ramdhani. Word Formation and Componential Analysis on the Names of Music Festival in Indonesia 2011. Jakarta: Uin Syarif Hidayatullah, 2012, p.iv.
naming process by Eugene A. Nida. The result of the analysis is blend and compound are commonly used in the name Music Festival and the appropriate
theory for analyzing the component meaning is naming type. Meanwhile, the writer herself chooses word formation and
componential analysis as two issues to be discussed in this thesis. The focus of the research is on analyzing the process of blend words of foodimals in
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball 2 film, component meaning of the blend words and those meaning based on context of the film. The theories that the
writer used are the concept of word formation proposed by Ingo Plag and Componential Analysis with naming process by Eugene A. Nida.
The differences among the writer’s thesis and the two previous theses are the corpus of the research used to obtain the data for the analysis. Laila
Afifa uses dictionary and Alif Ramadhani uses music festival names, while the writer uses film. The focus of their thesis are all of types of the word
formation and component meaning, while the writer focuses on blend words, component meanings and the meaning of the words in relation to the context
of the film. Moreover, technique of componential analysis the writer used in
analyzing in this research is naming technique that is different from Laila Afifah. The difference between the writer and Alif Ramadhani is in this
research the writer exposing the meaning of the blend words of foodimals using the context of the film.
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