The Use of Abbreviations in the Short Story Collection Jreng by Putu Wijaya

Abstract

This study aims to describe the types and processes of abbreviations in each short story contained in the short story collection Jreng by Putu Wijaya. The research method chosen is a qualitative descriptive method with a listening and note-taking data collection technique. The data are in the form of abbreviated words found in the short story manuscript. The data source in this study is the short story collection Jreng by Putu Wijaya. The stages carried out by the researcher in data analysis used the interactive analysis method of Miles et al. (2014), which consists of data collection, data condensation, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Based on data analysis, the study found that the types of abbreviations in the short story collection were 35 abbreviations (the initial syllable of a word, the last syllable of a word, the omission of the first letter, the first three letters, the first four letters, and the first five letters), 14 truncations (the initial syllable of a word, the last syllable of a word, the omission of the first letter, the first three letters, the first four letters, and the first five letters), 9 acronyms (the first letter of each word, the first syllable of each word, the first three letters of each word, the first two letters of word 1 and the first three letters of word 2, and irregular), 4 contractions (the omission of letters at the beginning of a word and the omission of letters in the middle of a word), and 2 letter symbols (letter symbols mark currency and letter symbols mark monetary units).