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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter aims to conclude the research and give recommendations for future researcher. This chapter consists of two sections, namely Conclusions and
Recommendations.
A. Conclusions
Based on the results and discussion which were presented in Chapter IV, the researcher draws the following conclusions that would answer the research
questions formulated in Chapter I. In order to answer the first and second research question: What words are
lexically ambiguous in Reader’s Forum section of The Jakarta Post newspaper? What phrases are structurally ambiguous in Reader’s Forum section of The
Jakarta Post newspaper? The researcher found out that the data consist of ambiguous words and phrases. There were 47 words and 7 phrases that were
considered to be ambiguous. The researcher concluded that based on the data analysis, in lexical ambiguities cases, the most ambiguous part of speech occurred
was noun. The ambiguous words that belonged to noun class were 21 words, while 9 of them belonged to verb class, and the rest, 17 words, belonged to
adjective. The researcher found 54 ambiguities consisted of structural and lexical ambiguity. The researcher did not find any lexical ambiguity that belonged to
pronoun, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The lexical
101 ambiguity was caused by polysemy as well as homonymy. While in the structural
ambiguity case, all of the ambiguous phrases were in form of noun phrase. The researcher did not find any structural ambiguous phrases in the form of verb,
adjective, and prepositional phrases. The third research question is how tree diagrams enable the researcher to
resolve structural ambiguities. The researcher concludes that tree diagram could be used to visualize structural ambiguity well. Tree diagrams can unpack the
possible meaning of ambiguous phrases. By using tree diagrams also, the pattern of the structurally ambiguous phrases can be revealed. Therefore, tree diagrams
enable the researcher to understand the interpretations of the structural ambiguities and make the researcher decide the writers’ intended meaning.
B. Recommendations
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