Institusion
Universitas Darma Persada
Author
Sixta, Meiliza
Subject
070 Documentary Media, Educational Media, News Media, Journalism, Publishing/Media Dokumenter, Media Edukasional, Media Berita, Jurnalisme, Penerbitan
Datestamp
2024-07-10 06:15:31
Abstract :
Nowadays, people need more actual and complete information. To get that
information, there are several ways. Newspaper is one way to get information. In
reading the newspaper, it is important to get what the newspaper intended to say.
Therefore, newspaper should present the information clearly. However, constructing
the sentences sometimes produces more than one meaning. Therefore, the writer
wants to conduct this study about structural ambiguity because readers can get
misunderstanding or misinterpretation, from The Jakarta Post in the articles of
opinion.
From this study, the writer wants to know what types of ambiguity and the
frequency of each type which occur in The Jakarta Post newspaper in the articles of
opinion. To analyze the data the vwriter uses "immediate constituent analysis"
through tree diagram as the main theory (Van valin, 2001) which is supported by the
theory of ambiguity from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity. this study takes 25
articles from the articles of opinion of "The Jakarta Post" newspaper by Indonesian
writers. The writer collected the dzta which has two or more meanings. Through the
analysis, she finds that there are two types of ambiguity in the articles of opinion in
The Jakarta Post newspaper.
Actually there arc five types, namely, noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective
phrase, adverb phrase, and prepositional phrase but in this study the writers only
finds two types, namely, noun phrase and prepositional phrase. Noun phrase can be
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divided into two, based on part of speech, namely, adjective + noun + noun and
adjective + noun h con + noun, while prepositional phrase can be divided into two
based on the effects whether it affects meaning or not. Prepositional phrase that does
not affect meaning can be divided into two based on parts of speech, namely,
preposition + adjective + noun + noun and preposition + adjective + noun + con +
noun. The prepositional phrase is more predominant and not affecting meaning in the
form of preposition+ adjective+ noun+ noun.