THE WORD FORMATION PROCESSES OF ABBREVIATIONS IN TEENLIT NOVELS A Thesis Presented as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement to Obtain the Sarjana Degree in the English Study Program By Name : Yuly Diana Handiani Student Number : 04.80.0017 English Letters Study Program Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University S E M A R A N G 2011 i
A THESIS ON THE WORD FORMATION PROCESSES OF ABBREVIATIONS IN TEENLIT NOVELS By Yuly Diana Handiani Student Number : 04.80.0017 Approved by, Emilia Ninik Aydawati, SP, M.Hum January 14, 2011 Major Sponsor Dra. Wuryani Hartanto, MA January 14, 2011 Co Sponsor ii
A thesis defended in front of the Board of Examiners on January 14, 2011 and declared acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS Chairperson : Emilia Ninik Aydawati, S.P, M.Hum... Secretary : Dra. Wuryani Hartanto, MA.. Member : Heny Hartono, SS, M.Pd. Semarang Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University Dean, Heny Hartono, SS, M.Pd 058.1.1998.221 iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to thank Jesus Christ who always blesses, guides and gives me strength in finishing my thesis. I also would like to thank the people who have helped me in accomplishing this thesis: 1. Mrs. Emilia Ninik Aydawati, S.P, M.Hum as my major sponsor and Mrs. Dra. Wuryani Hartanto, MA as my co-sponsor. Thank you for your patience in supporting and giving me some advice for my thesis. 2. My beloved mother in heaven, Anny and my father, Alex for their love, support and prayers. Thank you for everything you have given to me and also thank you for lending me a laptop to do my thesis. My elder brother, Masri Hermawan and family. Thank you for the prayer and support. Jesus loves you. 3. All my lecturers in Faculty of Letters. Thank you for everything. 4. Desti, Ayu and Kiky, thanks for the time, advice and support for my thesis, especially when I need laptop you have lent me it. 5. My lovely friends in Faculty of Letters: Andrie, Arih, Sasti, Indah, Muthia, Anna, Agung, Yudha, cicik Rina, Nanik, Novie meong, Cie Evie, Silvia I really thank for the love, support, time and togetherness. 6. My lovely friends in outside faculty: Be, P_nyoQ, Nyo Alex, Oh Yudhi. I really thank for the love, support, time and togetherness. 7. All of my friends in PT. TELKOM especially Mut_ndutz and Sandra, thank you for your support and prayers. I love you and miss you guys. God bless you all. Semarang, February 22, 2011 Yuly Diana Handiani iv
TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE OF TITLE COVER PAGE..i A THESIS APPROVAL ii BOARD OF EXAMINERS..iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT..iv TABLE OF CONTENT vi LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES..viii ABSTRACT.ix ABSTRAK x CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION...1 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY..1 1.2. FIELD OF THE STUDY...3 1.3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY..3 1.4. PROBLEM FORMULATION...3 1.5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY...3 1.6. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY..4 1.7. DEFINITION OF TERMS 5 CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF LITERATURE 6 2.1. DEFINITION OF MORPHOLOGY..6 v
2.2. WORD FORMATION PROCESSES 7 2.3. MORPHOLOGICAL ABBREVIATIONS...9 2.4. KINDS OF ABBREVIATION.9 2.4.1. SHORTENING 10 2.4.1.1. How to write shortening.10 2.4.1.2. Kinds of shortening 11 2.4.2. CLIPPING 15 2.4.2.1. The kinds of clipping...16 2.4.3. ACRONYM...17 2.4.4. CONTRACTION.18 2.4.4.1. Kinds of contraction 18 2.4.5. LETTER SIGN.20 2.4.5.1. The ways of abbreviation.21 2.4.6. AFFIXATION IN ABBREVIATION.26 2.4.7. REDUPLICATION IN ABBREVIATION.27 2.4.8. COMBINING IN ABBREVIATION.28 2.4.9. DELETING FOR ABBREVIATION..28 2.4.10. SHORTENING OF ABBREVIATION..29 2.4.11 OTHER KINDS OF INDONESIAN ABBREVIATION 30 CHAPTER III : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 32 3.1. DATA COLLECTION... 33 3.1.1. MATERIALS.33 vi
3.1.2. PROCEDURES OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA...34 CHAPTER IV : DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.35 4.1. THE INDONESIAN ABBREVIATIONS IN THE TEENLIT NOVELS 35 4.2. KINDS OF ABBREVIATIONS.35 4.2.1. Shortening...36 4.2.1.1. Keeping the first letter 36 4.2.1.2. Keeping the first letter with number...39 4.2.2. CLIPPING...40 4.2.2.1. Keeping the last syllables of some words...40 4.2.2.2. Deleting the parts of the words...42 4.2.3. ACRONYM.43 4.2.4. CONTRACTION.44 4.2.4.1. Keeping the first letter from every word.44 4.2.4.2. Keeping the first word intact and the first syllables.. 45 4.2.4.3. Keeping the first letter of every word.47 4.2.4.4. Keeping the first three letters of every word..48 4.2.5. LETTER SIGN 49 4.2.5.1. Keeping the first letter of each words.49 4.2.6. REDUPLICATION IN ABBREVIATION.50 vii
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION....52 5.1. CONCLUSION 52 5.2. SUGGESTION.53 BIBLIOGRAPHY 54 APPENDIX viii
LIST OF TABLES TABLES: 4.1. Keeping the first letter....36 4.2. Keeping the first letter with number...39 4.3. Keeping the last syllable some words 40 4.4. Deleting the part of the word..42 4.5. Acronyms.....43 4.6. Keeping the first syllable from every word 44 4.7. Keeping the first word intact and the first two syllable. 45 4.8. Keeping the first letter of every word 47 4.9. Keeping the first three letters of every word.48 4.10. Keeping the first letter of each word.. 49 4.11. Reduplication in abbreviation.51 ix
ABSTRACT Teenlit is a teenager literature. Teenlit novels are most favored by the young age, but did not rule out the adults also can not read Teenlit novels. It is enjoyable to read because in the form of language that is easy to understand. Slang is the kinds of language that is used in Teenlit novels. Teenlit slang helps to describe the abbreviations in the novels. The interesting phenomena as shown by the examples have inspired the writer to further analyze the word formation process of abbreviations of Teenlit Novels. The objective of this study is to find out the Indonesian abbreviations found in Teenlit Novels and to analyze the abbreviations found in the Teenlit Novels. This study used ten Teenlit Novels. The writer listed, analyzed, and then grouped. In analyzing, there are six processes. They are shortening, clipping, acronym, contraction, letter sign, reduplication. The writer used qualitative approach to get detailed information. In this novel, the writer finds some words that include in KBBI. For example, ASI, ATM, UFO. On the other hand, there are some new words that are not included in KBBI. For example, PEDEKATE, Mupeng.
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