The study of english compound words used in bbc news website
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Morphology, Compound types, BBC News, Meaning, EnglishAbstract
This study aims to find out the types of English compound words and to analyze the meanings of those compound words used in BBC news websites. The data sources of this study are eight news articles taken randomly from www.bbcnews.com. This study uses descriptive qualitative approach. The data were collected by applying observation method. Techniques of collecting data were reading the BBC News, note taking compound words found and classifying those compound words. The analysis was done based on the compound words theory as proposed by Carstairs-McCarthy (2002) about types and the meanings of compounds. The findings of this research were presented formally in the form of table and informally by explaining the finding in narrative way. The result of the study shows that there are four types of compound words found in this study, such as; compound nouns, compound verbs, compound prepositions, and compound adjectives. Moreover, compound words in the BBC News carry transparent and opaque meaning.
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