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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter the writer presents the research results and discussion, which are not labelled explicitly in this thesis. There are three sections of this chapter. The
first section of this chapter presents the data collected from the content analysis, answering the first problem in the problem formulation. The second section of this
chapter deals with describing the data using syntactic trees and answering the second problem of this research. The third section will be the outline of the
suggested resolutions.
4.1 Structural Ambiguity Occurrence in Indonesian Authors’ Fan-fictions
The data in this study was obtained by reading the Indonesian authors’ fan-fiction products posted in Live Journal. A total of 27 the GazettE fan-fictions
from six Indonesian authors were selected in this study. As it is explained in Chapter 3, the writer read all the fan-fictions and listed the structural ambiguities
which appeared in the fan-fictions using some related theories as a guidance to decide whether the sentences contained structural ambiguity or not.
As a result, the writer found 17 of 27 fan-fictions containing structural ambiguities. Some of them had more than one ambiguity occurring in the body of
one the fan-fiction. From the 17 fan-fictions, the writer found a total of 20 structurally ambiguous phrases.
Using the calculation that has been explained in Chapter 3, table 4.1 below shows the percentage of the number of structurally ambiguous phrases found in
the fan-fictions. Table 4.1 Occurrence of Structural Ambiguity in Indonesian Authors’ Fan-fiction
Products
No. Phrases
Occurrences Frequency
1. Noun phrase
16 80
2. Verb phrase
2 10
3. Adjective phrase
2 10
Total 20
100
Table 4.1 shows that there are three types of phrases which are found ambiguous. Those are: noun phrase, verb phrase, and adjective phrase.
From the first statement of Table 4.1, noun phrase set on the first place with 80 or 16 occurrences as structurally ambiguous phrase in the fan-fictions.
A total of nine ambiguous noun phrases had conjunction ‘and’ in its body. As it had the highest occurrence, in three noun phrases with conjunction ‘and’, the
phrases became ambiguous because they had adjective as pre-modifiers before the first noun. Three other ambiguous noun phrases had adverbs as pre-modifiers and
two of the others had degrees as pre-modifier. One of the ambiguous noun phrases, at last, was a noun which was modified by two other nouns.Four noun phrases
were found ambiguous because of having possessive meaning. In two other noun phrases found, double prepositional phrases, which acted as adverb of place, also
became the cause of structural ambiguity and one noun phrase was ambiguous because of the existence of the preposition ‘with’ which acted as adverb of
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