AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES IN NEWS TITLES OF SUARA MERDEKA NEWSPAPER A THESIS
RenandaAyuKinanti Student Number: 10.80.0022
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SEMARANG
2014
AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES IN NEWS TITLES OF SUARA MERDEKA NEWSPAPER
A Thesis Presented as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to Obtain a Sarjana Sastra Degree from the English Department
by RenandaAyuKinanti Student Number: 10.80.0022
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2014 ii
A THESIS ON AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES IN NEWS TITLES OF SUARA MERDEKA NEWSPAPER
by RenandaAyuKinanti Student Number : 10.80.0022
Approved by,
Antonius Suratno, PhD. Major Sponsor
June, 2014
Emilia Ninik A., SP, M.Hum. Co-Sponsor
June, 2014
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A thesis defended in front of the Board of Examiners on June 18, 2014 and declared acceptable
BOARD OF EXAMINERS
Chairperson
: Antonius Suratno, PhD.
Secretary
: Emilia Ninik A., SP, M.Hum.
Member
: Drs. Y. E. Budiyana, MA
Semarang, June 2014 Faculty of Language and Arts Soegijapranata Catholic University Dean,
Angelika Riyandari, S.S., M.A., Ph.D 058.1.1996.201
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, I have to thank Allah SWT who has been giving me everything to accomplish this thesis. I am particularly grateful for the assistance given by Dr. Antonius Suratno. and Ms. Emilia Ninik A., SP, M.Hum. as my supervisors. Without their guidance, encouragement and persistent help this thesis would not have been materialized. Furthermore, I would like to thank all of my friends for the entertainment and care they provided. Last but not least, most importantly, none of this would have been possible without the support and understanding of my beloved parents and brother. In this occasion, I would like to express my gratitude for their unconditional love and patience throughout all these years.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGES OF TITLE ..............................................................................................i PAGES OF APPROVAL ....................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..................................................................................v TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................vi ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................x ABSTRAK ..........................................................................................................xi
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................1-6 1.1. Background ................................................................................................1 1.2. Field of the Study.......................................................................................3 1.3. Scope of the Study .....................................................................................4 1.4. Problem Formulation .................................................................................4 1.5. Objectives of the Study..............................................................................4 1.6. Significance of the Study ...........................................................................5 1.7. Definitions of Terms ..................................................................................5
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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................... 7-16 2.1. Previous Study ...........................................................................................7 2.2. Semantics Theory ......................................................................................8 2.3. Meaning .....................................................................................................9 2.4. Ambiguity ..................................................................................................9 2.5. Lexical Ambiguity 2.4.1. Polysemy .........................................................................................11 2.4.2. Homonymy ......................................................................................12 2.6. Structural Ambiguity .................................................................................12 2.7. Language of Newspapers ...........................................................................15
CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .............................................. 17-21 3.1. Method of Data Collection ........................................................................17 3.1.1. Instrument ......................................................................................18 3.1.2. Participants.....................................................................................18 3.1.3. Procedures ......................................................................................19 3.2. Method of Data Analysis ...........................................................................20
CHAPTER 4 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ....................... 22-65 4.1. Newspapers’ Ambiguous Titles.................................................................22 4.1.1. Lexical Ambiguities .......................................................................22 4.1.1.1.
Data 1 ............................................................................23
4.1.1.2.
Data 2 ............................................................................24
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4.1.1.3.
Data 3 ............................................................................25
4.1.1.4.
Data 4 ............................................................................26
4.1.1.5.
Data 5 ............................................................................28
4.1.1.6.
Data 6 ............................................................................29
4.1.1.7.
Data 7 ............................................................................30
4.1.1.8.
Data 8 ............................................................................31
4.1.1.9.
Data 9 ............................................................................32
4.1.1.10. Data 10 ..........................................................................33 4.1.1.11. Data 11 ..........................................................................35 4.1.1.12. Data 12 ..........................................................................36 4.1.1.13. Data 13 ..........................................................................37 4.1.1.14. Data 14 ..........................................................................39 4.1.1.15. Data 15 ..........................................................................40 4.1.1.16. Data 16 ..........................................................................41 4.1.1.17. Data 17 ..........................................................................42 4.1.1.18. Data 18 ..........................................................................43 4.1.1.19. Data 19 ..........................................................................44 4.1.1.20. Data 20 ..........................................................................45 4.1.1.21. Data 21 ..........................................................................46 4.1.1.22. Data 22 ..........................................................................47 4.1.1.23. Data 23 ..........................................................................49 4.1.1.24. Data 24 ..........................................................................50 4.1.1.25. Data 25 ..........................................................................51
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4.1.1.26. Data 26 ..........................................................................52 4.1.1.27. Data 27 ..........................................................................53 4.1.1.28. Data 28 ..........................................................................55 4.1.1.29. Data 29 ..........................................................................56 4.1.2. Structural Ambiguities ...................................................................57 4.1.2.1
Data 1 ............................................................................57
4.1.2.2
Data 2 ............................................................................59
4.1.2.3
Data 3 ............................................................................60
4.1.2.4
Data 4 ............................................................................61
4.1.2.5
Data 5 ............................................................................62
4.1.3. Questionnaires ...............................................................................64
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ...................................... 66-68 5.1. Conclusion .................................................................................................66 5.2. Suggestion .................................................................................................68 Bibliography........................................................................................................xii Appendices
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Abstract
This thesis conducts an analysis of lexical and structural ambiguities in news titles of Suara Merdeka newspaper. In this modern era, there are many newspapers which contain news colloquial or newspaper styles in which people rarely can interpret what the newspaper is trying to tell or inform. This often happens especially in the titles. This research aims to find out which titles are lexically and structurally ambiguous throughout June and July 2013 editions, the most dominant type of ambiguity in the newspaper, and the way the potential readers interpret the ambiguous titles by distributing questionnaire to the students of Faculty of Language and Arts. Throughout these two-month editions, the writer found 29 titles that are lexically ambiguous and 5 titles that are structurally ambiguous. This study results that lexical ambiguity is more frequently appeared than structural ambiguity. Although the titles are lexically and structurally ambiguous, 75 percent of the respondents can interpret them in the right way in accordance with what the newspaper was trying to inform. Key words: ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity, news title, newspaper
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Abstrak
Tesis ini berisi tentang sebuah analisis mengenai ambiguitas leksikal dan struktural yang terkandung di dalam judul – judul berita koran Suara Merdeka. Di era modern ini, banyak koran yang mengandung berita dengan gaya bahasa sehari – hari ataupun dengan gaya bahasa koran itu sendiri dimana orang – orang jarang dapat menafsirkan dengan tepat informasi apa yang ingin disampaikan oleh koran tersebut kepada pembaca. Hal ini sering terjadi terutama di dalam judul – judul berita. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui judul – judul apa saja yang mengandung ambiguitas leksikal dan structural selama edisi Juni dan Juli 2013, jenis ambiguitas yang dominan muncul dalam koran, dan bagaimana pembaca menafsirkan judul – judul yang ambigu dengan mendistribusikan kuisioner kepada mahasiswa fakultas Bahasa dan Seni. Di dalam edisi dua bulan ini, penulis menemukan 29 judul yang mengandung ambiguitas leksikal dan 5 judul yang mengandung ambiguitas struktural. Dapat diketahui dalam penelitian ini bahwa ambiguitas leksikal muncul lebih sering dibanding ambiguitas struktural. Meskipun secara tertulis judul – judul koran ambigu secara leksikal dan struktural, 75 persen responden dapat menafsirkan judul – judul yang ambigu dengan tepat sesuai dengan apa yang ingin diinformasikan oleh koran.
Kata kunci: ambiguitas, ambiguitas leksikal, ambiguitas struktural, judul koran, Koran
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