Word Formation in Comic Series: the Case of Shabhaye Barareh

Morphology is a strong tool for creation of verbal satire. using word formation processes increases the artistic attraction of satire. This study is going to investigation of word formation and word creation peocesses used in the artificial languge of comic series of " Shabhaye Barareh "(the nights of barareh), which is one of the most signifacant Tv serise in two decades. The main factor of comedy and laugher in this serial is verbal satire in which word formation plays an imoportant role. To do this resarech, 355 words have been found out of 90 parts of this srial and have been classified according to the framework of Booij (2007). The results showed that word formation in this program follow the uiversal rules. Coinage (20.28%) was the most frequent, and acronym and back formation (0.2%) were the least frequent processes used in this Tv series. The percentage of the usage of non-morphological methods (60.83%) was more than word formation and word creation.