are related to other word in hyphenated compound adjective, for example breast and feeding are related semantically.
2.5 Lexical Meaning
In Murphy 2010: 40, according to Leech 1981: Ch.2, there exist seven types of meaning in semantics; this study focuses on only one of the types of
meaning. Lexical meaning is relatively stable. Lexical meaning has two components in form:
a. Conceptual Meaning
Conceptual meaning is often described as dictionary meaning or literal meaning of a word. It is the core of the meaning of a word. It is relatively constant
and stable, because it is the meaning agreed upon by all the members of the same speech community.
b. Associative meaning
Associative meaning is that part of meaning which has been supplemented to the conceptual meaning. It is the meaning which arises of the associations a
word acquires. It is open-ended, unstable and indeterminate, because it varies with culture, time, place, class, individual experiences, etc. Associative meaning
includes connotative, stylistic, affective and collocative meanings.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter deals with the discussion of research object and research method, including the techniques and procedures of collecting and analyzing the
data as well.
3.1 Research Object
The object of the research is hyphenated compound adjective taken from The Jakarta Post
paper edition from Wednesday, 21 September 2011 to Wednesday 30 November 2011.
The writer chooses the Jakarta Post as the data source since there are various data indicating the construction of hyphenated compound adjectives.
3.2 Research Method
In this study, this research is carried into descriptive analytic method. According to Ratna :
Metode deskriptif analitik dilakukan dengan cara mendeskripsikan fakta- fakta-fakta yang kemudian disusul dengan analisis. Secara etimologis
deskripsi dan analisis berarti menguraikan. 2006: 53
Thus, the writer concludes that the analytic descriptive method is conducted by analyzing and describing the data based on theory presented. In this
research, the writer analyzes the data based on its word-formation and meaning relation to show whether the data is conducted from what morphological unit and
