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In this study , The Writer choose Military Officer , especially on the Army
or Ground Forces characters on the movie Black Hawk Down that was directed
by Ridley Scott as the object of the study to analyze the specific word or word
formation process used by The Military Officer.
The Writer choose the movie Black Hawk Down as the object for
the study are because of several reasons : First, The Movie Black Hawk Down
focused on the story of a United States army that was sent by the United States
Government to Somalia to capture the rebels using a black hawk helicopter.
Which means that in order for the army to do that action, there are certain words
that was used by the army to make the plan easier and faster to be done.
Second, The Movie Black Hawk Down is a movie that was based on
the true story. Which means that the conversation and the terms used by The
Military Officer in the movie might be adopted from the original story. That is
why The writer choose this movie as an object in this study to analyze the word
formation.
The Writer also found some benefits for the reader about the analysis of
the term used by military officer in the movie Black Hawk Down : First , The
analysis will give an additional information and deep understanding about the
using of word formation in terms used by certain communities or groups,
especially on The Military Officer. Second, The analysis will help the reader to
learn one of the method used by The Writer to analyze the word formation process
on terms used by the military officer in the movie Black Hawk Down. Third,
The analysis hopefully could give a new information to the reader about the
meaning behind the terms that was used by the military officer in the United
States since the movie is focusing on the United States Army.
II. Method
Yule (2006) stated that there are a lot of word formation processes that
was found but still able to be explored on how new words are created. There are
some examples that are provided by Yule on his analysis of the word formation
processed, and we can use that as one of the way to analyze word formation
processes. Coinage for example, it is one of the least common processes of word
formation in english. Coinage is known as a processes where commercial
products were used as a general term. There are also many more types of the word
formation processes, and later will be explained by the writers along with the
result of the analysis that was found in the movie Black Hawk Down.
In this Studies, the methods that will be used by The Writer to collect the
data is by watching the movie Black Hawk Down from the beginning until the
end and write the specific terms that will be heard during the movie. After the
Writer finished watching the movie Black Hawk Down until the end and finally
collected all of the terms that was found, The Writer will find the word formation
processes that is suitable with the terms that was found during the analysis. And
the result will be explained in the form of table which will be elaborated in the
findings
III. Result
A. Clipping
1) Mog
2) Ammo
3) Medic
4) Evac
B. Borrowing
1) Hoo-ah
2) Irene
The word Irene is originally came from Greek which means Peace.
But in the movie, The Rangers used is as a sign to said that the mission is
begin. So the word Irene in the movie means begin or Start.
C. Acronym
1) QRF
The word QRF in the movie stands for Quick Response Force.
2) RPG
The word RPG in the movies stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade. It
is a weapon used by the somalian to attack The Rangers
3) KIA
The word KIA in the movie stands for Killed in Action. The word is
used as a sign if there are any rangers that was hit by a weapon and killed.
4) PCL
The word PCL in the movie stands for Positive Control Launch. The
word is used to describe the weapon used by the Somalian.
5) SAR
The word SAR in the movie stands for Save and Rescue. The word is
used when the sergeant give the command to save The Rangers who got hit.
6) JOC
The word JOC in the movie stands for Joint Operations Center. It is
one of the unit in the military.
7) ETA
The word ETA in the movie stands for Estimated Time of Arrival.
8) NOD
The word NOD in the movie stands for Night Observation Device. It is
a tool that the rangers used to see in the dark.
D. Affixation
1) Incoming
The original word of the word Incoming is coming. It was added with
the prefix in. The word is a sign that there are an attack coming.
2) Regroup
E. Functional Shift
1) Wounded
Based on the analysis, The Writer found Acronym as the most used word
formation process in the movie Black Hawk Down. There might be several
reason why The Rangers use a lot of Acronym word formation processes in the
movie Black Hawk Down. The first might be because of the name of the weapon
is too sophisticated. So , The Ranger used acronym in order to make the name
shorter and easier to say. The second reason might be if the rangers used acronym
instead of saying the real names, it might become shorter and easier to
communicate among each Rangers.
Not only talking about the most word formation process found in the
movie Black Hawk Down. The Writer also found the word formation process
Functional Shift as the least used by The Rangers in the movie Black Hawk
Down. The reason that The Rangers did not really use word formation process
Functional Shift for their terms is might be because they dont want any
misunderstanding happened especially during the war. So in order to prevent that,
they use the word that has the same meaning based on the dictionary.
V. References
Yule, George. 2006. The Study of Language : Third Edition. Cambridge
University.