Editorial: Introducing Formations

This journal is about the process of formation: the formation of our social worlds, and the formation of concepts we develop to understand and intervene in those worlds

A STUDY ON WORD FORMATIONS FOUND INTELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT

Word formation is the process of constructing new words from existing materials. There are six kinds of word formations those are Blending, Compounding, Clipping, Borrowing, Acronym, and Abbreviation. In this study, the writer investigates the word used in word formations, kinds of word formations and the lexical meaning of word used in word formations found in television. The writer believes that some consumer do not understand all the lexical meaning of language advertisement using word formations. The purpose of this study was to know the words used in word formations, kind of word formations and the lexical meaning of words used in word formations found in television advertisement. This study is conducted to give contribution for English Department, such as to enrich the knowledge of English Department students about recent linguistics phenomena in English community and to develop the ability of understanding linguistics science. The writer used a descriptive qualitative research design to describe and interpret the word used word formations, kind of word formations and the lexical meaning of word used in word formations found in television advertisement. The object of the study the writer chooses word formations in television advertisement especially in Indosiar program specified to the medicine product. In collecting the data, the writer used observation as the instrument. Here, the writer does direct observation to complete the data, because he wants to get the data from the research objects. To analyze the data, the writer used several step as follows: 1) finding the word and put in the table, 2) classifying the word into word formations, 3) Analyzing the lexical meaning of word used word formation found in television advertisement, 4) Drawing conclusion based on the data. The result of this study shows that 22 words classified into 4 word formations used in television advertisement and the lexical meaning of 22 words in television advertisement especially medicine product. Finally, the writer suggests that this study will encourage other researchers to conduct better researcher, especially in linguistic subject

Exploratory Muhammed Ali Center Survey

Contains code book, an SPSS data set, survey instrument, and a sample report

Household Formations

Between 1960 and 1980, the number of households in the U.S. increased by 50 percent and the proportion of the population that were household heads rose from 29.5 to 36.3. While some of this increase was due to the maturing of the"baby boom" population, over half was caused by rising age-specific headship rates. In contrast, between 1980 and 1983, headship rates fell sharply for the under 34 population. This paper explains household formations due to changes in headship rates in terms of changes in real income and the price of privacy.

V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds

We consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. We introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that they tend to lead to stabilization into several of the well-known V-like formations that have been observed in nature. We also provide quantitative indicators that we believe are closely related to achieving V-like formations, and study their behavior over a large set of independent simulations

Lithuanian tekéti and related formations

Erdvilas Jakulis’ thorough, detailed and comprehensive study (2004) is an important contribution to our reconstruction of the Balto-Slavic verbal system. The following remarks are intended to complement his findings from a Slavic perspective. Jakulis demonstrates that the type of Lith. tekèti, teka ‘flow’ is largely of East Baltic provenance. He finds it difficult to identify the same type in Old Prussian