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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
A. FINDINGS
1. Types of Wordplay in SpongeBob Movies
Wordplay is known as a play on language, especially in humourous way. It is considered as a part of culture. It brings information that can only be
understood by a community which belongs to the culture. The problem of wordplay arises when people from different countries try to understand wordplays
from certain works. It happens a lot in a film or novel. Wordplay becames an interesting pheomena, but unfortunately some audiences who are non-native of
the English language do not clearly understand. It happens in SpongeBob movies. There are clever wordplays that are supposed to be funny, but it is hard for peope
from diferent countrie to understand unless those wordplay is translated into their languages. Thus, the focuses of this research are to describe the types of
wordplay, the technique to translate the wordplay, and to measure the equivalence of the wordplay in SpongeBob Movies.
According to Delebastita 1993:102, there are four basic categories for wordplay: phonological structure, lexical development, syntactic structure, and
morphological development. Phonological structure is divided into four. They are homophony, homonymy, homography, and paronymy. Lexical development is
divided into two: polysemy and idiom. The table below shows the frequency and percentage of the types of the wordplay in SpongeBob movies.
Table 2. The Frequency and Precentage of the Types of Wordplay in SpongeBob Movies
No. Types of Wordplay
Frequency Percentage
1. Phonological Structure
a. Homonymy 2
8 b. Homophony
- -
c. Homography 1
4 d. Paronymy
7 28
2. Lexical Developments
a. Polysemy -
b. Idiom 4
16 3.
Syntactic Structure 1
4 4.
Morphological Developments 10
40 Total 25
100 From the table above, it can be seen that morphological developments has
the most data with 10 out of total 25 data and the highest percentage 40, followed with paronymy with seven data, idiom with four data, homonymy and
syntactic structure with each two data. For the last place belongs to homography with one datum.
2. Techniques to Translate Wordplay in SpongeBob Movies
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