COMPOUND WORDS OF GAME NAMES USED IN PLAY STORE

Erlin Oktavia, Asih Prihandini

Abstract

Abstract:  This research focuses on analysing compounding processes in game names used in play store. It’s also done to find out the word meaning formed. To answer this challenge, the theory of compounding by Yule and Plag were applied as the main theory and some other theories from some references such as book written by Prihandini and Haryanto. Methods used in this research is descriptive analysis method, that is by describing the data found in some play stores. The result shows that there is compounding process, that is endocentric compound representing the word meanings. Compounding process plays important role in language development. It is proven by the existence of compounding process, it creates some new words with their new meanings used in games names in playstore such as Mousebusters, Plague Defender, Skylanders, and Starfighters. Compounding process also helps the reader to understand the new meaning of the new words formed.

Keywords

compounding; endocentric compound; word meaning

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