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Lexical Ambiguity and Humor in “Funny Tweets” @JokesMemesFacts Account on Twitter During the COVID-19 Rahmawati, Nursabrina
Journal of Literature, Linguistics, & Cultural Studies Vol 3 No 1 (2024): Journal of Literature, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies (LILICS)
Publisher : English Literature Study Program

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18860/lilics.v3i1.6107

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This research aimed to understand humor which is a linguistically creative language, especially in the realm of semantics, dimensions of meaning; homonyms, and polysemy. Moreover, the trend of new language and terms among Twitter X residents has emerged recently due to the COVID19 pandemic, leading people spend their time on social media for social criticism, expressing sadness, or simply for entertainment. As the main theory of this research, Murphy’s theory (2010) related to lexical ambiguity; including homonymy homograph, homophone, homonymy absolute, and polysemy, also Leech’s theory (1981) related to semantic meaning; including conceptual, connotative, social, affective, reflected, collocative, and thematic meaning, were used to analyze the data. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative approach in this study. The result shows that homonymy is the one of lexical ambiguity that occurs more often than polysemy in phenomena of language that contain humor. Absolute homonymy is the most common type of homonymy, followed by homophones, then homographs which are the rarest. The results revealed there are quite a lot of funny tweets containing lexical ambiguity on Twitter X, which can make people who read confused or misinterpret the true meaning, intent, and motif.
Co-Authors Akhmady, Fajarningrum Krisnamukti, Tedy Asjad