An analysis of english compound words in an artticle of life and style column
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- Điều hướng trang này:
- Maulidia, H.R. Kusumah, C.M.
- Table 1. The data of compound word No. Compound Word Kind of Compound Part of Speech Relations
| FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter provides discussion and analysis based on the research questions in the formulation of the study. The purpose of this research is to looking for the types of compounding words found in the article entitled "Designers of the Runaway as Jakarta Fashion Week Takes Off" from the life and style column in the Jakarta Globe and to analyze the types of compounding words found in the article entitled "Designers of the Runaway as Jakarta Fashion Week Takes Off" from the life and style column in the Jakarta Globe according to their semantical relationship from the compound and the head of the word. The data collection is a text then be analyzed by using the compounding word. Furthermore, the data is collected based on compound words into their parts of speech and it is analyzed through their semantic relations. The article entitled "Designers of the Runaway as Jakarta Fashion Week Takes Off" from the life and style column in the Jakarta Globe consists of five paragraphs. Each Maulidia, H.R. & Kusumah, C.M. An Analysis of English Compound Words in An Article of Life and Style Column 39 paragraphs has several sentences. At this stage, five sentences composed of compound words are used to be analyzed that categorized into the following table. Table 1. The data of compound word No. Compound Word Kind of Compound Part of Speech Relations 1. Chairwoman Compound Noun Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 2. Fashion Week Compound Noun Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 3. Chief Executive Compound Noun Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 4. Showroom Compound Noun Verb/Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 5. Trade Event Compound Noun Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 6. Vivacity Compound Noun Noun+Noun Exocentric Compound 7. Fashion Designer Compound Noun Noun+Noun Endocentric Compound 8. Rainbow Compound Noun Noun+Noun Exocentric Compound 9. Highlighted Compound Verb Adjective + Verb Endocentric Compound The following explanations provide a detailed study of each compound. First, in the sentence, "This is the biggest Jakarta Fashion Week so far," said Avida Alisjahbana, Jakarta Fashion Week chairwoman and chief executive of the Femina Group. The words "chairwoman," "chief executive," and "fashion week" in the sentence above are compound nouns. The second is in the sentences of Indonesian designers Ari Saputra, TotonJanuar, and Yosafat Dwi Kurniawan, who also presented their collections in the Trace SS14 Paris Showroom, a trade event held in conjunction with Paris Fashion Week this year. The words "showroom" and "trade event" are compound nouns. The third is in the sentence of the collection that reflects the vivacity and freedom of travel and consists of loose-fitted dresses, pants, and blouses in muted beige and gray. The word "vivacity" is identified as a compound pronoun. Furthermore, in the sentence "Celebrated Islamic fashion designer Dian Pelangi showed a playful line titled Pop Batik that befits her name, which translates as a rainbow," the word of fashion designer and rainbow are compound nouns. The last is in the sentence of "Occasional bursts of orange and lime green hues highlighted the collections," the word of highlighted is a kind of compound verb. Based on the five sentences above, six compound nouns were gathered and one compound verb. According to Carstairs (2002) states that compound noun is the commonest type of compound in English. Furthermore, there are several types of the compound noun in English, such as verb-noun, noun-noun, adjective-noun, and preposition-noun. The |