Abstract
This study is aimed to identify the types of compound nouns and analyze the meanings of compound nouns conveyed on The Jakarta Post website. Two theories applied in this study, the theory of compound proposed by Katamba and the theory of meaning proposed by Palmer. Eight articles from The Jakarta Post website were chosen as the data source. The selected articles are related to technology, lifestyle, and business from December 2020 until February 2021. Documentation method and note-taking technique used in collecting the data. The collected data was analyzed by using a descriptive qualitative method and triangulation technique. Meanwhile, in presenting the data analysis, this study used formal and informal methods. The result shows that all types of compound nouns based on the theory applied are found in the data source. The types are: noun + noun, adjective + noun, and preposition + noun. In terms of meaning, there are transparent and opaque meanings.
Highlights
Morphology is the process that refers to the part of the grammar that is concerned with words and word formation stated by O'Grady and Guzman (1996)
This study focused on identifying and analyzing the types of compound nouns and their meanings found on The Jakarta Post website
Transparent meaning is the meaning of the words that can be determined from the meaning of each part
Summary
Morphology is the process that refers to the part of the grammar that is concerned with words and word formation stated by O'Grady and Guzman (1996). One of the digital news websites is The Jakarta Post The articles on this website contain new words related to the word-formation process, especially compounding. The Jakarta Post website is chosen as the data source because the digital news provides many compound nouns. This study focused on identifying and analyzing the types of compound nouns and their meanings found on The Jakarta Post website. The reason for choosing the articles from The Jakarta Post website is that it contains compound words, especially compound nouns that relevant to the topic of this study. This article aimed to analyze IndonesianEnglish compound words translation equivalence since both had different classifications and characteristics to be investigated She used the novels of Lelaki Harimau and the English version of Man Tiger as the data source. Opaque meaning is not predictable to be determined from the meaning of its constituents
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