Sa'adah, Hilyatus (2014) A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF ENTAILMENT APPLIED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE LIFE OF PI. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This study is under a big umbrella of linguistics. More specifically, it is a semantic study, which is one of the branches of linguistics, since it explores about the meaning of the language. The aim of this study is to analyze linguistic phenomenon of entailment applied by Pi, the main character in Life of Pi. This study has two objectives. They are to identify the types of entailment and also to describe the orders of entailment applied by the main character in Life of Pi. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method since it emphasized on describing the phenomenon of entailment in Life of Pi. Moreover, the findings were presented in narrative or textual description. However, number was also used to support the analysis of the data. Some steps in analyzing the data were: identifying the data taken from the movie Life of Pi, classifying the data, putting the data into the data sheet, analyzing each datum based on the research questions, interpreting the data, explaining the findings, and drawing the conclusion. Finally, the data findings were triangulated by three linguistic students who are keen on linguistics. This study reveals two findings. First, there are four types of entailment occur in the main character’s utterances in the movie Life of Pi. They are one-way entailment, two-way entailment, negative entailment, and metaphorical entailment. One-way entailment which occurs 18 times is the first rank since it is the most common entailment uttered by people. Then, the second rank is negative entailment which occurs eight times since it covers all utterances containing entailment which are expressed using negative form. After that, two-way entailment places on the third rank which has six occurrences. That type of entailment is to strengthen the idea with an explicit way. Finally, metaphorical entailment only occurs three times since this kind of entailment is rarely found in people’s utterances. Second, there are two orders of entailment applied by the main character in Life of Pi: background entailment and foreground entailment. Moreover, the foreground entailment is able to be expressed by clefting or by stressing. The highest occurrences rate goes to the foreground entailment which uses stressing in words in the sentences since almost every sentence uttered by people contains stressing. It is almost a half from the analyzed data. In other word, it is 17 data from all the 35 data. In contrast, clefting, as another way in expressing foreground entailment only occurs twice because it is restricted by the structure of the sentence that is by adding some words to mark the focus of the sentence. Finally, the background entailment is found in 16 data out of 35 data. That is by giving one or more sentences to guide the hearer to get the main idea.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | semantics, entailment, Life of Pi |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2015 02:59 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 22:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/19410 |
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