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The syntactic approach is used to identify structural ambiguities occur in the phrase. Since the writer analyses the ambiguous phrases found in the Reader’s
Forum section of The Jakarta Post newspaper discussing the haze caused by forest fire in Indonesia, these approaches can be used.
C. Method of the Study
In conducting the study, the writer used DocumentContent Analysis of Qualitative research. Content analysis focuses on analyzing and interpreting
recorded material such as public records, textbooks, letters, films, tapes, diaries, themes, reports, and so on within its own context. When researchers use content
analysis in their study, they have to establish the authenticity of the document itself and also the validity of its contents. Qualitative researchers do their
researches by focusing on the total picture, a whole picture, rather than breaking it down into variables. They try to understand a phenomenon by concerning its
complete systems. The goal of their research is to get a holistic picture and depth of understanding Ary, 2002:27
In this study, the writer studies a linguistic phenomenon called ambiguity. The writer studies the dominant grammatical phrases that cause ambiguity, the
kinds of ambiguity, the interpretations of the ambiguity found, and the frequency of each kinds of ambiguity found. Since the study is Document Content
Analysis of Qualitative research, the writer only uses theory in analyzing the data. The writer focuses on analyzing the content of the ambiguous phrases found in the
Reader’s Forum section of The Jakarta Post newspaper discussing the haze caused by forest fire in Indonesia.
1. Data Collection
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The data used in conducting the study were obtained from the articles in The Jakarta Post official website,
www.thejakartapost.com . The articles were
gathered from 4 August 2015 when the issue was spread and became a big public attention until 2 December 2015 when the fire was eventually put off. From the 37
articles found, the writer picked two articles randomly to be used as the object of the study and thus from these two articles, the data be obtained.
First, in order to collect the data, the writer obtained the articles related to forest fire in Indonesia on 2015 from the official website of The Jakarta Post
newspaper, www.thejakartapost.com
. This website is more complete than the printed version since the printed version of this newspaper and the online version
short and brief version are also provided in this website. Secondly, after all the articles were collected, the writer reads the articles
one by one, sentence by sentence to find ambiguous phrase. The ambiguous phrases found are used as the data.
2. Data Analysis
This study focuses on interpretations of phrases. Therefore, the writer analyzed the data by interpreting the ambiguous phrase found on the Reader’s
Forum section of The Jakarta Post newspaper discussing the haze caused by forest fire in Indonesia.
Secondly, using theory of ambiguity, the writers decides what kind of ambiguity happens in the sentence. The writer classifies it into the two types of
ambiguity: structural ambiguity and lexical ambiguity. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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Thirdly, the writer decided the types of phrase that cause the ambiguity through English Phrase Structure theory. Phrase Structure Rules are used to show
patterns of syntactic combination so that we can see the patterns of a phrase or a sentence.
Then, for lexical ambiguity, the writer paraphrases the phrase to show possible interpretation of the ambiguous phrases. For structural ambiguity, the
writer uses tree diagram to show the possible interpretations. Fifthly, after analyzing all the ambiguous phrases found, the writer
decided their percentage of it so that in the end, the writer identified the most common grammatical phrases with ambiguity and the most common type of
ambiguity. In analyzing the meaning of the phrases further, the writer uses the fifth
edition of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English for Advanced Learners as the guidelines to the meaning.
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