The Use of Westersn Loanwords in Spirit Section of Suara Merdeka Newpaper

Abstract

This study focuses on Western loanwords in newspaper. The fact that Western language such as English, Latin, and Dutch language has significant influence towards Indonesian because there are many Indonesian words have been adapted from then and that Western loanwords often used in sportarticles of newpaper, the writer then intends to conduct a research on Western loanwords in a sport section in a newspaper. That is the spirit section of Suara Merdeka. This study was conducted by using discriptive qualitative approach. In this study, the data were taken from spirit articles of Suara Merdeka newspaper from January 2nd to 31st 2015. To know whether the loanwords in articles are adapted from western or other languages, the writer used Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia and Kamus Kata Sarapan. This study use Jendra's theory about the types of loanwords which divide into two types, necessary loanwords and unnecessary loanwords. The findings show that there arwe 552 Western loanwords found in the articles. For the types of loanwords, there are 459 necessary loandwords and 93 unnecessary loandwords. Necessary loandwords is the type that are most frequently used in the articles. This study may contribute to the understanding of the words that considered as necessary and unnecessary loanwords in Indonesian language which are adapted from Western loandwords, and language usage and newspaper.