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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe phenomenon of teenagers? language which is mushrooming these days
has inspired the writer to conduct a research about teenagers? language especially
the affixation process. In this study, the writer firstly, tries to find out the
languages used for the roots and for the affixes in teenagers? languages as used by
Grace Suryani in her book "The Puzzle of Teenage Life". Secondly, the writer
wants to find out the word building components along with the languages used.
Thirdly, the writer also wants to find out the dominant language used for both the
roots and affixes. In the analysis, the writer uses the morphological theory stated
by Francis Katamba, Ralph W. Fasold, M. Ramlan, Subroto and Muhadjir The
writer uses descriptive qualitative approach and the data are taken from the words
with affixes in chapter one, two and four of Grace Suryani?s "The Puzzle of
Teenage Life". In analyzing the data the writer first, puts the data taken from the
book of Grace Suryani (words that contain affixes from chapter one, two and
four). Then, put them in the table and identify the root of each word and state the
language of each root. Secondly, the writer indicates the types of affixes used with
each word whether it is prefix, infix or suffix and then states the affixes. After
that, the writer states the language of the affixes used and states the word building
components of the word construction to see what languages influence teenagers
the most in their word choice (either the roots or the affixes). From the analysis,
the writer found out that the languages which influence teenagers in constructing
their words are Indonesian, Jakartanese, Javanese and English. Also, the mostly
dominant language used for both the roots and affixes is Indonesian.