A STUDY OF WORD FORMATION PROCESSES ENCOUNTERED IN THE JAKARTA POST EDITORIAL WEBSITE VERSION

The aim of this research is to find out the processes of word formation that occur
in The Jakarta Post editorial website version and conducted by using descriptive
qualitative method. The theory used in this research is the theory of word
formation by George Yule (2017). The corpus of the data of this research was the
editorial section in The Jakarta Post website version, moreover, the samples of the
research were seven editorials in The Jakarta Post website version which
published from September 30th 2021 to December 4th 2021. The main instrument
of this research was documentation. The result of this research showed that there
were 42 data of borrowing, 9 data of compounding, 3 data of back formation, 1
datum of conversion, 6 data of acronym, 38 data of derivation, and 5 data of
multiple processes. It can be concluded that there were 7 (seven) types of word
formation encountered in seven different editions of The Jakarta Post editorial
website version. Furthermore, there is no coinage, clipping, and blending were
found in the editorial section in The Jakarta Post website version.
Keywords: Editorial; The Jakarta Post; word formation