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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe development of media communication and technology causes the
development of language which is signed by the appearing of many new words. In
fashion, for example every year there is much new fashion equipment that needs
fashion terms. Like other terms, fashion terms also undergo a linguistic process,
which is called word formation processes. The writer considers that this study will
give a better understanding for the readers about fashion terms and word
formation processes. By having more understanding about fashion words, the
writer hopes that the readers can follow the development of fashion. Therefore,
through this study the writer wants to find out the word formation process of
fashion terms in Elle and Men’s Vogue magazines. Those two magazines are
popular and discuss a lot lifestyle such as fashion. The writer gets the data from
Elle and Men’s Vogue magazines in February and March 2009. The formation of
new fashion terms happens by the process of word formation. The writer used
Plag (2003) and George Yule’s (1996) word formation theory and descriptive
qualitative method in finding and analyzing the data. The findings show that the
most frequent word formation processes are compounds in Elle (12) and Men’s
Vogue (7) and the lowest is Reduplication, in Elle (1), in Men’s Vogue is Multiple
Processes (1).The similarities of Elle and Men’s Vogue magazines are Compound,
Affixation, Abbreviation, Truncation, Multiple Processes, The differences of word
formation processes in Elle and Men’s Vogue magazines are Coinage , Borrowing
and Reduplication.