The title of this paper is “
An Analysis of English Loanword in
Articles on
Pikiran Rakyat Online”.
Background of
this topic is English language that influence Indonesian language. The objectives of this study are to find out the kinds
of English loanwords and to know how the process of English loanwords formed
based on PUEBI in ten articles o
n
Pikiran R
akyat Online.
This paper uses qualitative method. This method was used to understand any phenomenon
about loanword. However, there are three kinds of English loanwords by using Haugen’s theory that are used in articles
about technology on
Pikiran Rakyat On
line
: English loanword without phonetic substitution, English loanword with
partial phonetic substitution and English loanword with complete phonetic substitution. The writer found out 153
English loanwords taken from ten articles within three months. The
largest quantity that appeared in
Pikiran Rakyat
’s
articles was English loanword with partial phonetic substitution. It means that Indonesian language adopted English
loanwords with some changed the pronounciation to made Indonesian people little bit easie
r to understand the meaning
and how to applied them into daily conversation
. It shows that the appearances of using English loanwords in mass
media especially on
Pikiran Rakyat Online
are high. It proves that English loanwords are enriching Indonesian
voca
bularies.
Keywords:
loanword, Indonesian, English, phoneti
