Last modified: 2022-07-22
Abstract
The research is entitled Analysis of Word Formation in Sport and Wellness Terminologies: A Case Study of Men’s Health Magazine. This study aims to analyze and explain the process of word formation that occurs in the Men’s Health Magazine by applying morphology theory from Yule. The research was designed as a descriptive qualitative research. The sample of this research was sport and wellness terms found in eight articles in Men’s Health Magazine which publish on November 2021. Documentation was used as main instrument in this research. There were 10 types of word formation by Yule (2010). The result of this study showed, there are 51 data of compounding, 26 data of suffix, 9 data of abbreviation, 3 data of infix, 2 data of prefix,2 data of borrowing, 1 data of circumfix, 1 data of clipping, 1 data of derivation, and 1 data of backformation. Therefore, it can be concluded, there are eleven types of word formation were found in eight sport and wellness articles. Furthermore, there is no coinage, blending, conversion, and multiple processes were found in sport and wellness terms in eight articles in the Man’s Health Magazine.