utterances. Then writer collected the sentences from the utterances of Jace Wayland. In the utterances, some sentences did not have the complete form of one
sentence. It could only consist of one word or one phrase with no subject, verb, or even object. Therefore, the writer limited the data collection by attaining sentences
in the utterances which have the complete form of one sentence. In addition, the noun phrase collected from the sentences of the utterances would be analyzed by
sorting them. In order to avoid ambiguity, this study only required a noun phrase that consisted of more than one word. When the data population of the analysis was
collected, the writer then continued to analyze the data of noun phrase.
2. Data Analysis
The first analysis that the writer would like to conduct was figuring out the distribution of the noun phrase using the theory of noun phrase that was mentioned
above. This analysis was meant to present the distribution of noun phrase that was used in the character’s utterances in order to identify its patterns. The method that
was used by the writer was by separating the parts of each noun phrase according to grammatical function of the forms of different modification used in each noun
phrase such as the determiner, pre-modifier, and post-modifier from the head. After finding out the types of the noun phrase, the next analysis was
figuring out the occurrence of certain noun phrase that appeared the most based on the type of its modifiers. Every example of the noun phrase is followed by the
information of the page number where the noun phrases are found in the book. The PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
occurrence of noun phrase would be presented in the form of percentage in order to ease the writer determine each of the type of noun phrases.
The amount of overall certain type of noun phrase would be transferred into a percentage based on the total amount of population data. The result of the
noun phrase’s occurrence throughout the story of the novel became the base that would lead to the next analysis. The result of this analysis would be presented in
the form of table below.
Table 3.1 The Types of Noun Phrase
No. Structure
Number Percentage
The second analysis aims to identify the distribution of the noun phrase In order to reveal the use of noun phrases in the sentences of Jace Wayland
’s utterances. The data collection from the first analysis is used in order to proceed to
the second analysis. The writer sorts the noun phrase found in the sentences of the utterances according to the part of speech those noun phrases are belong to. The
occurrence of a certain noun phrases with certain part of speech function will be accumulated also with the percentage of each group of noun phrases. The result of
this analysis can be summed up in the form of table below.
Table 3.2 The Distributions of Noun Phrase Function
No. Function
Number Percentage
The results of first and second analysis are used in order to conduct the third analysis that aims to identify the function of the noun phrases found in the
utterances of Jace Wayland to his character in the novel. A stylistic theory was applied in this study. Thus, theory of foregrounding was applied in this study to find
the pattern of the noun phrase distribution significance in the story of the novel. Certain use of linguistic features such as noun phrase in Jace Wayland’s utterances
played certain role and significance in stylistic analysis that provided specific effect and style to the characterization of character. Therefore, theory of character was
also applied in the analysis that would be conducted in this study. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
