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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter V presents the conclusions of the research which answer the two research questions stated in Chapter I. The research questions are formulated from
the definition of headline. The analysis of types of figurative language comes from the point of view of attractiveness in the headline. Meanwhile, the analysis
of syntactic features comes from the point of view of the concise structure in the headline. Besides, the researcher presents the recommendations related to the
future research and current practice.
A. Conclusions
As stated in Chapter I, the research aims to find out the types of figurative language and the syntactic features used in the opinion column headlines of The
Wall Street Journal . Based on the analyses, the researcher concludes that the types
of figurative language used in opinion column headlines of WSJ were metonymy, teasing, hyperbole, irony, repetition of sound consisting of alliteration and
consonance, and idiomatic expression. Parallelism was not identified in the headlines.
The second research question is about the syntactic features used in the opinion column headlines of WSJ. The types of noun phrase found in the opinion
column headlines of WSJ were a noun phrase with premodification, a noun phrase with postmodification, and a noun phrase with both of premodification and
postmodification, and a noun as the head only,. Besides noun phrases, the
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The types of verb phrase used in the opinion column headlines of WSJ were a monotransitive verb, an intensive verb, and a simple present verb.
B. Recommendations
The researcher expects that this investigation would be beneficial for students who like writing, especially journalism. They can learn how to create the
attractive headlines from the figurative language point of view without ignoring the syntactic features in the headlines. Besides journalism, the students can try to
explore the types of figurative language and syntactic features and apply in another kind of writing, for example creative writing.
However, the researcher realizes that this research needs an improvement to be better research which can give more contributions. The future researchers
can explore more about the types of figurative language in other kinds of news in the newspaper, such as sport news and entertainment news. Besides, the future
researchers can explore more the other types of figurative language in the other newspapers. In the syntactic features, the future researchers can investigate the
ellipsis grammar aspect further.
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