ANALISIS PEMBENTUKAN KATA YANG DITEMUKAN DI APLIKASI TIKTOK

IFFAH AL HIKMAH. An Analysis of Word Formation Processes Found in TikTok Application (supervised by Hamzah Machmoed and Harlinah Sahib).
This research investigated the process of words formation and its influenced to part of speech of the data words formation processes. This research used descriptive qualitative data, by used observation and capturing the data. Data source in this study is TikTok of Charli Grace D’Amelio. The data in this research are taken from the captions, hastags, and comments or words that consist of morphological process of Charli Grace D’Amelio’s TikTok content. The researcher used the theory of Delahunty and Garvey (2010) and Plag (2003) which divides word formation into 8 types these are compounding, abbreviation, blending, affixation, coinage, conversion, acronyms, and borrowing. The result of the data showed that the researcher found 11 words formation of compounding, 7 words formation of abbreviation, 2 words formation of blending, 8 words formation of affixation, 7 words formation of coinage, 8 words formation of conversion, 16 words formation of acronyms, and 2 words formation of borrowing. The predodominat finding indicates a prevelance of acronyms, suggesting a potential deviation from established word formation rules, they wrote them in lowercase other than to be written in uppercase. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of understanding and appropriately applying different word formation processes to avoid writing mistakes.