Please take a moment to complete this survey below
Library's collection Library's IT development CancelFor this study, the writer analyzed the word formation processes of new words
which occur in Friendster?s testimonials. The writer used Friendster?s testimonials as
her data because Friendster is widely used and there are great numbers of testimonials
which are written by many people all over the world. According to Plag (2003), word
formation process is the way in which new words are created. The research problem
of this research is how the new words in Friendster?s testimonials are created.
Therefore, the writer is really interested in observing new words which occur in
Friendster?s testimonials, the formation processes of those new words and the most
frequent type of word formation process. The purpose of the study is to reveal the
formation process of new words and the predominant word formation processes which
occur in Friendster?s testimonials. The writer used theories of word formation
processes proposed by Ingo Plag, Jane Aitchison and George Yule. Based on the
findings, the process of blending is the most frequent type of word formation process.
This fact shows that people like to create new words by combining two or more than
two words to form one word. It may be caused by the simplicity and efficiency of
typing and sending testimonials in the short time, and the ability and creativity to
create their own different codes in order to obscure the real meaning of those words.
The process of affixation also got high percentage in forming new words. This fact
also shows the efficiency in forming new words.