AN ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH AFFIXATION USAGE IN NEWS
COLUMN OF JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER on Monday and Sunday
Editions: Vol 31, No. 337 – 338, April 13rd - 14th 2014
Ana Aspiatun Hasanah, 1410130164. “An Analysis on the English Affixation Usage in
News Column of Jakarta Post Newspaper on Monday and Sunday Editions: Vol 31, No.
337 – 338, April 13rd - 14th 2014”.
The affixation can be divided into two types’ derivational affixation and inflectional
affixation. Derivational affixation changes the part of speech from the base word. There are
three derivational affixations such as: suffix, prefix and infix. The writer analyzed on April
13rd – 18th 2014 in the writer house. The writer used method with qualitative in content
analysis method. The objectives of the research to require: 1) the forms of the affixation that
used in the Jakarta Post newspaper, 2) the meaning of the affixation that used in the Jakarta
Post newspaper, 3) the usage of the affixation that used in the Jakarta Post newspaper.
The result shows in chapter II about the forms of affixation that used in the discourses
of the Jakarta Post newspaper. There are many kinds of affixation such as nominal suffix,
adjectival suffix, verbal suffix, and adverbial suffix. There was also the prefix. The suffix that
used in the discourses of the Jakarta Post newspaper such as: –cy, -ion/-ation, -or, -ment, -(i)
an, -er, -ity, -ship, -ism, -ence, -ing, -ry, -ance, -ful, -ist, –ful, -ic, -al/-ial, -ive, -ly, -ed, -able, -
ent, -y, -ing, -ent, -ible, -ous, -ize, -ate, and –ly. The prefix that used in the discourses such as:
ir-, in-, un-, dis-, post-, and non-.
The result in the chapter III about the meaning of the affixation that used in the
discourses of the Jakarta Post newspaper, that was the meaning of affixation in the five
discourses of the Jakarta Post newspaper was changed the meaning of new words from the
original words.
The result in the chapter IV about the usage of the affixation that used in the
discourses of the Jakarta Post newspaper, that were nominal suffix as nominal suffix derived
from other noun, adjective and verb. Adjectival suffix derived from noun and verb. Adverbial
suffix was adverb derived from adjective. Verbal suffix was verb derived from adjective and
noun. And the last of the prefix that were negative prefix and the prefix forming adjective.
The result shows an analysis of the affixation that used in the Jakarta Post discourses
such as: In the nominal suffixes there are 71 words, adjectival suffixes there are 59 words,
verbal suffixes there are 5 words, adverbial suffixes 31 words and for the prefixes there are 15
words. The word that attached by the affixes in the discourses dominated by the nominal
suffix.
Key Words: The discourses analysis the Jakarta Post newspaper, forms, meaning and usage of
affixation, (derivational)
