A Morphological Analysis of Word Formation Processes in CNN News Selected Articles

Abstract

This research conducts a morphological analysis of word formation processes within CNN News selected articles. This research aims to analyze the word formation processes in CNN news entertainment selected articles in order to identify as well as categorize the word formation, to analyze the processes occurrence, and to determine the dominant process within the five selected entertainment section articles. By using the qualitative design method, the data were analyzed using George Yule (2020) theory. This research limits the research by only analyzing 5 selected CNN News articles from the entertainment section around January 2025 to March 2025. The data of this research were the writing news in the selected articles, which are sourced from CNN News entertainment section articles and collected using systematically Miles & Huberman (1994) theory. The result showed that there are seven words formation processes that found within the selected article, which are 52 borrowings, 96 compoundings, 12 clippings, 15 conversions, 21 coinages, 248 derivations, and 58 multiple processes. In addition, this process occurred by borrowing from other languages, combining two words into one, trimming words, changing word classes, taking from well-known things, adding affixes, and using more than one processes. Moreover, the most dominant process was the derivation process among the other processes found.