DISCOVERING THE USE OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES IN KHALIL GIBRAN'S POETRY: DISCOVERING THE USE OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES IN KHALIL GIBRAN'S POETRY

DISCOVERING THE USE OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES IN KHALIL GIBRAN'S POETRY

Abstract

Language is an important identity in a country which functions as a means of communication in daily activities, of course this language cannot be separated from the identity of that country. There are many languages ​​in the world, including regional languages, mother tongues or foreign languages, but here the researcher will explain that communication is not only a conversation or dialogue between 2 or more people, but communication can also use poetry as a means of communication . In this study, the researcher chose Khalil Gibran's poetry as the data medium, where the data media taken was about the use of derivational affixes, whether prefixes, suffixes or circumfixes. In this research, the researcher discovered the fact that the dominant use of suffixes was 25 times, prefixes were used 9 times and circumfixes were only used once in the 5 poems that the researcher took as data. The aim of this research is to find out how many afixes are used in Khalil Gibran's compositions and it is known that Khalil Gibran often used affixes of the suffix type.