AN ANALYSIS OF REGISTERS USED BY ONLINE SHOPS

NAFISATUN, HASANAH (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF REGISTERS USED BY ONLINE SHOPS. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Registers are a set of vocabulary items associated with the discrete occupational or social group. Word formation is a way of forming and creating new words from the use of old words. The objective of this research was find out the Registers used by Online Shops on TikTok, Shopee, Amazon, and eBay and to categorized word formations of these registers on TikTok, Shopee, Amazon, and eBay. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were TikTok, Shopee, Amazon, and eBay. The instrument of this research was the researcher herself analyzing registers on online shop applications. The researcher collected the data by opened and explored the 4 (four) applications of online shops that had been chosen TikTok, Shopee, Amazon, and eBay, then typed the registers found in the 4 applications themselves, examined the data to determine the registers and word formations, created the data for this research that has been recognized. Finally, divided into categories depending on their registers and word formations of these registers. Research findings showed there were many types of registers found from Online Shops applications, such as TikTok, Shopee, Amazon, and eBay. The most frequently found in online shops of registers were compounding, followed by clipping and abbreviation. There were only a few other types because most words like buyback, cashback, restock, CO, PO, were found in these online shops. Meanwhile, the categorized word formations of registers were 31 data with the word formation of these registers were divided into 9 categories, namely coinage, borrowing, blending, clipping, acronym, abbreviation, compounding, back formation, and inflection. Among them there were 8 clippings, 1 acronym, 7 abbreviations, 14 compounding, and 1 back formation. The most common word formation of register used by online shops was compounding. Keywords: Online Shops Application, Registers, Sociolinguistics, Word Formation.

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