efforts alone will not enough, and with the help of the public that effort surely will be fulfilled.
4.2.2.5 Connotation
Connotation is the meaning of a word or group of words based on feelings or thoughts that arise in the speaker. A word is called has connotative meaning if it has
sense of value, both positive and negative. Positive and negative the sense of values sometimes also occurred as a result of the use its reference as the word
symbol. Based on the data source that is SBY speech which is related to the bombings, there are at least three words or phrases that contain connotation. In each
quotation, the explanations of connotations and its critique are presented as follows: [1] My fellow countrymen and women, to all Indonesians that I love, wherever you
are. Today is a black dot in our history [as a nation].
The phrase black dot has a commonality of meaning as a stain that has been etched on a clean white paper. As a result, the paper has become dirty due to the
stain. If it is applied to SBYs speech, it would mean an event that has been scraped nastiness and sadness in the history of Indonesia.
Beside that, basically the term black dot are considered not strong enough in order to create a certain impression to the listener. As has been known that the word
dot means a little round mark, while the bombing itself is one of the great inhuman event that ever happened. In other words the use of the word dot is considered less
representative of the events that have occurred. The other form of connotation is conveyed through the use of figure of speech as follow:
[11] Other statements said they wished to turn Indonesia into [a country like] Iran.
It is considered as metaphor for it is basically a comparison between things, and the comparison itself is actually implied meaning which is not expressed by
some words such as like, as, than, etc. As it has been known that Iran is a country which currently at war so it is not safe for people to live. Thus, the phrase “to turn
Indonesia into Iran” means that the terrorist want to create the conditions and the situation which are highly unsafe for people to live in Indonesia.
[19] ... but this time we will not let them become Draculas and death-mongers in our country.
The connotation of “draculas” is a creature that can turn his prey into like him that make its number had grown and continues to grow. Thus, the word “draculas”
in SBY’s speech means he does not want terrorist develop in Indonesia. The use of word dracula deemed less real because it is a fantasy character in
the story. Besides that, there is a possibility that there are a few people who do not know about dracula himself, making it difficult to accept the contents of such
connotations. Thus it would be better to replace the word dracula as become weed which is sounded familiar and real to the audience, moreover not change the
message to be delivered. Those are connotation which is found in SBY’s speech. Sometimes, it is a
word or phrase in form of figure of speech which is inserted to the context in order to create a certain impression to the listener. In fact there are still many found
criticism on it. It shows that the speaker in this case SBY still has a deficiency in the use of language as well as the power.
4.2.2.6 Register
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