A Study of English and Indonesian Acronyms

Abstract

This research deals with the analysis of acronyms in the headlines of The Jakarta Post. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The objectives of the study were to find out the types and syllable structural of acronyms in the headlines of The Jakarta Post and to find out the dominant type of acronyms in the headlines of The Jakarta Post. The source of the data was The Jakarta Post, the data were taken rendomly, the researcher took the data started from in the last week of December and first week on January 23th, 3rd, 13th, 14th. Systematically, the data were obtained from the headlines of The Jakarta Post as the following: 23th, 13th, 14th. The method used in the data was content analysis. The data were analyzed based on types of acronyms, there were immigrant, recursive, syllable and self-referential. There were 65 occurences of acronyms in the headlines of The Jakarta Post. Based on the analysis, there were four types of acronyms namely: immigrant 34 (52.30%), recursive 23 (35.38%), syllable 7 (10.76%), self-referential 1 (01.53%).