Background of the Study
un- which has a meaning ‗not‘. As we can see, only by adding prefix which
consists of two letters, it can change the meaning of the word. Another example is a word with technology term from a sentence in The Jakarta Post
‘s Sci-Tech article;
I wasn’t familiar with the iPhone when people went crazy about
smartphones , from the first version to the iPhone 4.
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The word smartphones is compounding word formation which is a noun and has a meaning a mobile phone
that has software like the software on a small computer, and that connects to the internet.
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It is formed by the morphemes smart + phone + -s. Smart from the base smart
adj, phone which is clipped from the word telephone n, and –s as a
suffix. By describing the morpheme in detail, people can be easily know the process of word formation and also can guess the meaning by discovering of each
morpheme. In describing the process of word formation in the last paragraph, the
Structural Morphology Theory is used to explain it step by step. The structural morphology theory discusses about the process of the morphemes which create a
word and the changes of each morpheme when they merge into a word. This theory also has the featured step which is dictionary step. Dictionary step is to
explain the meaning of a word. In addition, it also uses to prove a word is a real word or not because if it is a real word that has been agreed by world then it will
registered in the dictionary.
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The Jakarta Post, http:www.thejakartapost.comnews20140301my-gadget-nonita-
respati-capturing-great-and-inspiring-things.html accessed on April 30, 2014
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Cambridge Dictionaries Online, http:dictionary.cambridge.orgdictionarybusiness-
englishsmartphone accessed on May 17 , 2015.
Related to word formation, if people want to find a new word or term which frequently uses today, online media is the right option to choose. Online media is
the easiest way to know what happen today worldwide. Online media is the easiest way to get update because there are so many things that we can find in it
such as from electronic newspaper. Same as printed newspaper, electronic newspaper or e-news also containing news on current events that is accessed via
the internet.
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Nowadays, there are so many e-news that can be accessed worldwide easily, for example Time, The Jakarta Post, CNBC, and The Hindu. An e-news usually
has a category for the articles such as sport, entertainment, technology, science, and politics and economy. Technology article is one of the most interesting
categories because the researcher can find new words or terms to express new things related to technology such as the word smartphones. Smartphones is a new
word that currently appears and becomes a trending word in recently 2013s. Technology term is more interesting to analyze the process of word formation
because it is mostly formed by more than one morpheme and sometimes it clips off the other part of the old words to create a new term. So, this research will use
Sci-Tech articles from The Jakarta Post as the data in hope that the researcher can find many terms related to technology that can be analyzed.
Therefore, the research will discuss about word formation in electronic newspaper The Jakarta Post
‘s Sci-Tech articles by applying the Structural Morphology Theory to analyze the process.
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http:www.loc.govacqconsermod33-18.pdf , p. 48 accessed on April 23, 2014.