Affixation in opinion articles of Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1st, 2015

Siregar, Mei Astuti (2015) Affixation in opinion articles of Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1st, 2015. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about Affixation in Opinion Articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1, 2015. This research is motivated to make easier in understanding printed text through affixes that attached to free morpheme. The Jakarta Post is a one of daily English newspaper in Indonesia. It is one of Indonesian newspaper that uses English. It consists of various article, such as; city, opinion, environment, celebrity, entertainment, sport, business, and special report. The objectives of this research are identifyingaffixation in opinion articles of Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1st, 2015, finding the word function dominant in opinion articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper On Tuesday September 1, 2015 and explaining the reasons of word function dominant in opinion articles of Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1st, 2015. To solve the problem, the researcher conducted descriptive research and used content analysis which kind of manifest coding. The researcher did reading, noting and grouping for collecting the data. The data source of this research was three opinion articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper on Tuesday September 1st, 2015. Based on the research resulted, the researcher find affixes in both of inflectional and derivational process. The word function that dominant is affixes in forming noun. It was supported by there were 238 affixes in forming noun (52,3%), there were 49 affixes in forming adjective (10,7%), there were 132 affixes in forming verb (29%) and there were 36 affixes in forming adverb (8%) on three articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper. Theoretically, reasons of dominant word function were affixes in forming noun are more than affixes in forming adjective, verb and adverb. There were 40 affixes in forming noun, 19 affixes in forming adjective, 7 affixes in forming verb and 8 affixes in forming adverb. Second, noun also can be formed in both of inflectional and in derivational process. The third is noun in a sentence can be found at the beginning or subject and at the last or object of the sentence.

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