THE ANALYSIS OF AMBIGUITYTYPE AND CASUAL FACTOR ON THE NEWS OF JAKARTA ELECTION IN THE JAKARTA POST

ABSTRACT
FahrilIlham.2018.The Analysis of Ambiguity Type and Casual Factor on the News of Jakarta Election in the Jakarta Post.Thesis Undergraduate Program.MercuBuana University ofYogyakarta.Advisor:AgustinusHarySetiawan. S.Pd.M.A. Kata kunci:Semantics, Meaning, Lexical Ambiguity, Structural Ambiguity, and Casual Factor of Ambiguity.
The Jakarta Post which is the biggest English newspaper in Indonesia contains a lot of ambiguous during the election. To avoid ambiguity and to figure out the appropriate meaning the researcher is concerned with type and casual factor of ambiguity on the news of Jakarta election in the Jakarta Pos. This research has two objectives: (1) To analyze the type of ambiguity, (2) To analyze the casual factor of ambiguity. Ambiguity represented through words, sentence and phrase on the news of Jakarta election in the Jakarta Post.
This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. It was concerned with the description of the data on the news of Jakarta election in the Jakarta Post. . The primary source of the data was the news of Jakarta election. The primary instrument was the researcher who acted as the data collector, data analyst and data interpreter. Then, the secondary instrument was the data sheet. In collecting the data, he selected the data, provided data sheets to categorize the data, and classified the data into the data sheets. In analyzing the data, he identified the data into the categorizations, and interpreted each datum based on the theories.
The findings of the research show that the two casual factor of lexical ambiguity are found. They are homonymy (6, 25%) and polysemy (75%). Meanwhile, thereis no data founded from other casual factor of lexical ambiguity such as homophone and homograph. Polysemy is the most frequent form of lexical ambiguity on the news of Jakarta election in the Jakarta Post. Then, there are two casual factorsof structural ambiguitiesthat occur on the news of Jakarta election such as equivocal phrasing (12, 5%) and contextual ambiguity (6, 25%). Equivocal phrasing is the most frequent casual factor of structural ambiguity. Meanwhile, there is no data founded from other casual factor of structural ambiguity such as prefix and suffix.

ABSTRAK
Fahril Ilham. 2018. The Analysis of Ambiguity Type and Casual Factor on the News of Jakarta Election in the Jakarta Post. Thesis Under graduate Program. Mercu Buana University of Yogyakarta. Advisor: Agustinus Hary Setiawan. S.Pd.M.A. Kata kunci: Semantics, Meaning, Lexical Ambiguity, Structural Ambiguity,and Casual Factor of Ambiguity.

Jakarta Post adalah media berbahasa Inggris terbesar di Indonesia yang mengandung makna ambigu selama pemberitaan tentang pemilihan gubernur Jakarta. Untuk menghindari kalimat ambigu dan menemukan makna sesungguhnya, peneliti focus pada jenis dan factor kasual dari ambigu yang terdapat pada berita pemilihan gubernur Jakarta di Jakarta Post. Peneltian ini terdapat dua obyektif: (1) untuk menganalisa jenis ambigu. (2) untuk menganalisa factor kasual dari ambigu. Ambigu dapat ditemukan pada kata kalimat ataupun ungkapan pada berita pemilihan gubernur Jakarta di Jakarta Post.
Penelitian ini menggunkan metode descriptive qualitative. Fokus pada gambaran data dari berita pemilihan gubernur Jakarta di Jakarta Post. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah dari artikel Jakarta Post. Instrumental penelitian ini adalah peniliti, peneliti yang mengumpulkan data, menganalisa dan menerjamahkan. Instrumental lain pada penelitian ini adalah data sheet. Didalam pengumpulan data, peneliti menyeleksi data, menyediakan data sheet dan mengkategorikan berdasarkan jenisnya dan data diterjamahkan berdasarkan teori.
Penelitian ini menemukan dua faktor kasual dari ambigu jenis leksikal. Terdapat jenis homonymy (6,25%) dan polysemy (75%). Sedangkan jenis faktor kasual yang lain tidak ditemukan seperti homophone dan homograph. Polysemy adalah jenis faktor kasual leksikal yang paling dominan pada temuin ini. Sedangkan jenis faktor kasual jenis struktural ditemukan dua data yaitu equivocal phrasing (12,5%) dan kontektual ambigu (6,25%). Dalam penelitian ini tidak ditemukan data lain factor kasual dari struktural seperti prefix dan suffix.