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Suzana Rahman

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Ambiguity Found in the Text Containing Local Wisdom Suzana Rahman; Nunung Nurjannah
Academic Journal PERSPECTIVE: Education, Language, and Literature Vol 5, No 1 (2017)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian (The Institute of Research) Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati

Theories of semantics ‘ interpretation of meanings are not only discussing about speakers’ meaning and word or sentence meaning.They are also influenced by ambiguity. Ambiguity can cause different interpretation of meanings. One of the problems is caused byone has more than one meaning. The aim of this research entitled : “The Analysis of Ambiguity Found in the Texts containing Local Wisdom”. is to find out lexical ambiguity in the texts containing local wisdom. The choice of the texts can be in the form of brochures of some tourism objects around Cirebon, or the hystorical background of Cirebon and some other places of The Area III of Cirebon and Ciayu Maja Kuning. This research is regarded to be important due to the effect of ambiguity that can cause mis interpretation of meaning that will cause misunderstanding. The term lexical ambiguity follows the theories of Fromkin et.al (2002) and Kent Bach (2009). The data is taken from those texts that have been previously stated, then all the data willl be analyzed to know the type and occurence of the usage in those texts.After that the way how to disambiguate them will be described. The research method that is used in this research is descriptive qualitative from Creswell (1994).Findings : The words classes found to be ambiguous were: 46.6 % Nouns; 33.33 % Adjectives; 6.66% Verb; 6.66% Adverb. It also means that its occurances of ambiguites were mostly in nouns, adjectives, verb and adverb. The way to disambiguate the ambiguous words mostly by giving additional information required to clarify the meanings of those words in order to avoid ambiguity; only one using picture. Almost all the ambiguities were caused by having multiple meanings that are also called polysemious. Other researchers who are interested toknow more about ambiguity can use other kind of texts to elaborate the findings.Keywords: ambiguity, local wisdom content-text, lexical

The Impact of Surroundings on the Characters in Thomas Hardy’s Novels Suzana Rahman; Ratna Muntiningsih
Academic Journal PERSPECTIVE: Education, Language, and Literature Vol 4, No 2 (2016)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian (The Institute of Research) Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati

The THE IMPACT OF SURROUNDINGS ON THE CHARACTERS INTHOMAS HARDY’S NOVELS” is to apply the writers’ knowledge on literature and toshow their interest in reading novels. The writers transfered not only their limitedknowledge in analysing novels as literary works but also building the awareness of theimportance of reading habit to their students of Unswagati because all of them take thesubject of Introduction to English Literature. Reading and analyzing novel is reallybeneficial for students that both can improve the students reading skill but also theirEnglish ability, moreover, they will have the ability in criticizing the novel fromdifferent views. In brief, it will also improve their critical thinking. Afterwards, bydescribing the characters and their attitudes toward each other and how thesurroundings influence them, we also learn about their culture. The theory that is usedin analysing those novels is from Harvey, Murphy, Klarer, and Lodge. The method thatis applied in analysing the characters and the surroundings is descriptive qualiative inwhich the writers take the data by reading the three novels, explain in details about thecharacters and the surroundings involved in the story and some other elementssupported the completeness of the story.

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