AN ANALYSIS OF JARGONS USED IN 'PCWORLD' MAGAZINE IN MAY 2012 EDITION

Suharjani, Daru Tiyas (2012) AN ANALYSIS OF JARGONS USED IN 'PCWORLD' MAGAZINE IN MAY 2012 EDITION. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

Jargon is language that used by people in the same field or particular group that itis not secret. It is used in several fields, such as sports and nautical. Even theinformation technology and the internet create many overlapping jargon used bycomputer scientist, programmer, and users to communicate. This research studiesabout the jargon used in 'PCWorld' magazine. The aim of the study are todescribe the word formation through the morphological process of jargon and toexplain the lexical and the contextual meaning of each jargon used in 'PCWorld'magazine. In this research, the writer use descriptive qualitative research that usebased types of qualitative research that is documentation to analyze the writtenjargons. The result of the study shows that: (1) The word formation through themorphological process of jargon used in 'PCWorld' magazine are acronym(32.5 % ), dipping (2.5 % ), mu I ti ple process (2.5 % ), compounding (37 .5 % ), andbackformation (25% ). (2) Reveal with the lexical and contextual meaning, thewriter found that the contextual meaning of jargons is broader than the lexicalmeaning (52.5%), the contextual meaning of jargons is opposite with the lexicalmeaning (10% ), and words of jargon doesn't have the lexical meaning for about(37.5%).

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