Type of Research Data Source

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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY

This chapter provides information on how this research is carried out in an attempt to answer the research questions which cover what elements compose nominal compounds and what types of nominal compounds frequently appear in the newspapers. It begins with discussing type of research, data source, data collection technique, and technique of analysis.

3.1 Type of Research

This research is categorized as a research of morphology. There are some considerations why this research is regarded to be a morphological research. Firstly, this research attempts to examine one of morphological processes, which is compounding. Szymanek 1989 mentions that compounding is included in concatenative processes in morphology. It examines two bases which include words or root morphemes. Katamba 1993 argues that a research involving the analysis of roots, stems, and bases is called a morphological research. This is, therefore, said to be a research of morphology also because “compounding creates new items of vocabulary Bauer, 2003, p.135. In other words, the order of words is very essential in constructing a compound.

3.2 Data Source

This research generally aims to find out nominal compounds in both local and international online newspapers, namely The Jakarta Post and New York Times. It attempts to reveal the elements composing nominal compounds and to identify which type of nominal compounds appears frequently in the newspapers. 24 Regarding the focus of the research previously mentioned, the field of this research is morphology. The object of this research is two newspapers which have been previously mentioned. The online version of the newspapers is chosen because of the accessibility and practicality in collecting the data. In addition, the reason for choosing online newspapers is because it is easy to filter the data because it has been well organized. The websites are thejakartapost.com and nytimes.com. Particularly, articles from the World column are used in this research as the data source. Newspapers are chosen as the data source because they are resourceful, trustworthy, and always up to date. Since the goal of this research is to discover nominal compounds, newspapers are a good data source because many articles are written there and a lot of nominal compounds can be easily found. The underlying reason why nominal compounds are frequently used in newspapers articles is because newspapers writers work with deadline and so, using nominal compounds in their writings can save the limited time that they have. For example, rather than saying member of committee responsible for the teaching award of university, a newspaper writer can merely write university teaching award committee member.

3.3 Data Collection Technique