progressive means favoring or showing rapid progress; happening or developing steadily.
2. “A collapse of global growth” Feb. 10th, par. 2
The words collapse and growth have contradiction of meaning. The word collapse means to fall down or fall in suddenly, often after breaking apart. And the word
growth means the process of growing; development. 3.
“Commercially, it has failed to replicate the American success” Feb. 7th, par. 4
The words failed and success have contradiction of meaning. The word failed means not to succeed in something. And the word success means the achievement
of the desired aim, or of fame, wealth or social position.
4.8 The Percentage and Existence of Lexical Relations and Meaning Properties
Here are the percentage and existence of lexical relations and meaning properties that exist in seven articles of The Jakarta Post are illustrated in the
following tables:
Universitas Sumatera Utara
The Percentage and Existence of Lexical Relations and Meaning Properties
Here are the percentage and existence of lexical relations and meaning properties that exist in seven articles of The Jakarta Post newspaper:
TABLE I
Lexical Relations Articles
Total 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
Hyponyms -
1 1
- -
- -
2 11,1
Meronyms -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Homonyms -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Synonyms 3
- 1
2 1
- 1
8 44,4
Antonyms -
1 4
- 1
1 1
8 44,4
18 100
TABLE II
Meaning Properties Articles
Total 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
Meaningfulness 42
39 61
33 55
33 56
319 99,37
Ambiguity -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Redundancy -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Anomaly -
- 1
- -
- -
1 0,31
Contradictory -
- 1
- -
- -
1 0,31
321 100
Universitas Sumatera Utara
TABLE III
Meaningfulness Sentence Types Articles
Total 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
Simple Sentences 23
17 22
12 28
13 18
133 41,6
Compound Sentences 3
1 7
1 11
4 16
43 13,4
Complex Sentences 11
17 25
15 15
14 11
108 33,8
Compound-Complex Sentences 5
4 7
5 1
2 11
35 10,9
319 100
Universitas Sumatera Utara
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.3 CONCLUSIONS
After analyzing and calculating the lexical relations and meaning properties that exist in fourteen articles of The Jakarta Post newspaper, some conclusions
can be drawn from the case of lexical relations and meaning properties. In lexical relations, antonyms 8 sentences: 44,44 and synonyms 8 sentences: 44,44
occur the most dominantly, successively followed by hyponyms 2 sentences: 11,1, homonyms 0 sentences: 0 and meronyms 0 sentence: 0 is zero.
While in meaning properties, meaningfulness 321 sentences: 99,37 is the most dominant type then followed by contradictory 1 sentences: 0,31, anomaly 1
sentence: 0,31, ambiguity 0 sentence: 0 and redundancy 0 sentence: 0 is zero.
From the result of analysis, it can be concluded that most of the articles are meaningfulness as part of kind of meaning properties which is easy to understand.
However, those articles apparently use plenty of complex sentences that are quite difficult to understand by common people because a complex sentence has one
dependent clause and at least one independent clause so they will get some difficulties to determine the dependent clause and independent clause.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
5.4 SUGGESTIONS
