THE LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTER’S UTTERANCE IN THE SECRET GARDEN NOVEL

RIKA, AISYA PUTRI (2023) THE LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTER’S UTTERANCE IN THE SECRET GARDEN NOVEL. Diploma thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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ABSTRACT THE LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTER’S UTTERANCE IN THE SECRET GARDEN NOVEL By: Rika Aisya Putri This thesis deals with the analysis of the relations of meaning contained in the novel. Semantic analysis approach is used in studying the data. Then, classify the words by type and further analyze them. The researcher uses John I Saeed's theory to classify the lexical relations. They are synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, polysemy, meronymy, homonymy, portion mass, and member collection. This study aims to find out the types of lexical relations and find out the most dominant types of lexical relations in the main character‟s utterance of the secret garden novel. This research used descriptive qualitative as the research design because the purpose of this study is to provide a deep analysis of the data. The researcher used primary data was taken from The Secret Garden novel and secondary data from other sources such as books, internet, and the other sources. The researcer used herself as an instrument to collect the data, which is called a human instrumen. The researcher used documentation method based on sentence of the conversation by the main character in the novel. The researcher used data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing to collecting the data. the researcher analyzed the data by John I Saeed‟s theory of types of lexical relation. To focus on the research, the researcher limits the data into 84 data which contains lexical relation. The result of this research is the lexical relation include eight types based on Saeed‟s theory but the researcher only found seven types, they are synonymy, antonymy, meronymy, hyponymy, homonymy, portion mass, and member collection. The researcher found 10 data of synonymy, 12 data of antonymy, 23 data of hyponymy, 1 data of homonymy, 1 data of meronymy, 3 data of member collecton, and 2 data of portion mass in the secret garden novel. One type does not exist in the novel, namely polysemy. Beacuse no one forms of language (words, phrases, etc) that have more than one meaning. Finally, the researcher found the most dominant types of lexical relation of this research is 23 of hyponymy from 52 data total. Keywords: Semantic, Lexical Relation, The Secret Garden novel.

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