CHAPTER INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the background of the study,
the statement of the problems, objective of the study, significance of the
study, and the definiton of the key terms are discussed.
1.1 Background of Study Usually
every one has a certain hobby, such as cooking, swimming and reading.
Reading is one of hobby if the
activity is done due to its exciting aspect. Reading it is just not read a
book. But today the comic hobbyist are very phenomena in our society. We can
found it in magazine, newspaper and also comic books.
Comic strips are found in daily
newspapers worldwide. It is a short strip or sequence of drawings, telling a
story, drawn by a cartoonist, they usually communicate reader via speech to the
balloons.
Comic strip is a pictorial and literary art
(even if, generally speaking a low brow one). It has simple lines; often
draftsmanship is poor, esthetically pleasing solutions, printed on cheap paper,
glanced at momentarily.
Furthermore, it has two-dimensio
nal product which depend upon the liniear progression of ideas, embodied in symbolic
caricatures or cartoon and setting to relate messages.
Comic strip requires much faceted analysis
that is interesting to investigate because it has some aspects. Firstly, social
relevance, comic strip performs logical and credible explanation of popular
culture products as a whole and popular story formulas in particular that
provides profound insight into the myth process of constructing social relatives
for he group and individual alike also reflects changes in sociopolitical
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history and elaborate ritual.
Secondly, the visual aspects that use as medium for the character move and
speak within a realistic begin before and carry past the action depicted,
establishi ng “reality” perpetually. Thirdly, comic strips are virtually all
pictures.
It may touch with the powerful
source of learning and gratification because pictures may trigger huge
associate pathways to memory, experiences,pleasure that predate verbal equivalent.
In this research, the Jakarta Post is used as
the subject of the research that will be specified on comic strips. The Jakarta
Post is the first Indonesia newspaper which is written in English. In 1991, The
Jakarta Post received two the International Newspaper Marketing
Association-Editor and Publisher Awards and two more in 1993. In 1994, the Jakarta
Post again received the similar award, winning firstplace among newspapers with
circulations under 50.000 copies daily in the categoryof public relations
printed materials.
This award was accompanied by
another certificate of merit for the same category. This paper is the first and
so far the only Indonesian newspaper thus International acknowledge.
In 1994, the Jakarta Post became the first
Indonesian n ewspaper to go global under a project nick named “Go
International”. The “Go International ” project is a direct response to the
Post’s mission to bring forward an Indonesian perspective on National Global
Issues amid the deluge of Western view spoints dominating the global flow of information.
In this study, the Jakarta Post is as object
of the research specified on its comic strips in art column. There are several
comic strips in Jakarta Post newspaper such as
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(www.TheJakartaPost.com).
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Peanut, Garfield, Rose is Rose,
Born Loser and Ferd’nand. Based on the phenomena above, this research focuses
on word-formation. This focus is chosen, since there have not any reseachers
who have investigated the comic strips of the Jakarta Post that are published
on December 2003.
Furthermore, t his research has a
relation to the previous researches on the same field. For instance, Henry
Bradley (1966) on his research “Word-Making in English”. He said that there are
three possible ways in which a new word can be made. They are composition,
derivation and root creation. And also Jario Paramma (1999) on his thesis : An
analysis on word-formation of spoken Indonesian Language by Chinese Retailers
at Pasar Besar Malang. Based on the explanation above, the writer will consist
in her research by the titl e “Patterns of Word- Formatios in Comic Series
Issued in The Jakarta Post ”.
1.2 Problem Statement Based on
the description of the background of the study above, this study is conducted
to find out the answer of some problems, generally ; what kinds of word formation
are used in the comic of The Jakarta Post. This general problem is divided into
two specific problems as follows: 1.2.1 What word formation is mostly used in
the comic of the Jakarta Post? 1.2.2 What the special type of word formation
process used in comic series? 1.3 Objective of the Study Concerning the
problems mentioned above, the general objective of this study is to identify
the kinds of morphological process in the comic of the Jakarta Post.
Specifically, the objectives of
this research is as follows: 1.3.1 To describe the word formation process that
is mostly used in the comic of the jakarta post.
1.3.2 To identify the special
type of word formation process used in the comic of the Jakarta Post.
1.4 Significance of the Study This
study is expected to give theoretical and practical contribution to morphology.
Theoretically , most of the study about word formation without picture such as
comic strip and they have limitedness. Word formation on comic will over new
insight in morphology. Practically, will be useful for the comic hobbyist or
readers to develop technicall skill in understanding the message of the
impolite in comic. It is estimated that there are so many the comic readers.
Also it is very important for any researcher in the same field in helping them
analyze the morphology in written text.
The principle of sampling used in
this research is actually the theoreticall one. It means that the researcher in
deciding studied cases is guided by the theoreticall interest.
The focus of interest of the
study is to discover the word -formation process used in comic. That is why the
researcher study the cases one by one so that she reaches all condition in
which there is no new type of word-formation process. Thus, the researcher stop
the process of adding new cases if the activities does not add new type of
wordformation process.
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