‘AN ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATIVE MEANING USED IN JAWA POS
THESIS
By:
MUKHLISON
09360272
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATIVE MEANING USED IN JAWA POS
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to
achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
MUKHLISON
09360272
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
This thesis is written by Mukhlison was approved on October 28, 2013
By
Advisor II Advisor I
The thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on October 28, 2013.
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiya Malang
Dean,
Examiners: Signature:
1. Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M.Si 1……….
2. Dr. Hartono, M.Pd 2……….
3. Dian Arsitades, M.Pd 3……….
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
Everybody is genius, but when you judge the fish
by the ability in climb the tree it will live its life
believing that it’s stupid
(Albert Einstein)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful. The researcher would like to address the deepest gratitude for giving the researcher strength to complete this thesis. Sholawat and Salam always are given to our prophet Muhammad who has already given much goodness for our future life.
It is a pleasure thank to all those who have given me the possibility to complete this thesis. First and foremost, his sincere gratitude and appreciation goes to both his advisors, Dian Arsitades, M. Pd and Khaerudin, M. Pd for their constructive ideas, criticism, guidance, and patience throughout the long duration of preparing this thesis. They have successfully guided the researcher through some stressful times. Then, they are always willing to sharpen his understanding of this thesis and other academic activities.
Special thank goes to his beloved mother who always gives spirit and motivation, his beloved father who always gives advice, financial, and everything in her life, his two sweet brothers.
Lastly, the researcher would like to extend the gratitude and affection to his Lovely one (Aisyah), his lovely family (Diah, Icha, Novita, Ncy, Sandhy, Ramly, Ifa, Udin, Doni, Beni, Elok, and Lala), and for all of her friends who cannot be mentioned one by one for their encouragement, love, care and pray so that he can finish this thesis.
AN ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATIVE MEANING USED IN JAWA POS ABSTRACT
Studying meaning including studying associative meaning is the way to understand how the words, phrases, or sentences deliver meaning in everyday situation of spoken or written. It needs related theories to understand well what the meaning. Associative meaning in this research is to know a symbolism that is used by language community to express other concepts.
This research in general aims to study associative meaning in written text because sometimes to understand the meaning of the text is more difficult or ambiguous than in conversation. In this research, the researcher decide the types and the functions of associative meaning based on Chaer’s theory that was collected from Jawa Pos published from 17 August 2013 until 23 August 2013. Furthermore, it was focused on the OPINI and JATI DIRI columns of Jawa Pos because there are many associative meanings are found.
Qualitative research is used to give comprehensive descriptions and discover functions of associative meaning in the articles. Then, the data was analyzed by classifying into words, phrase or sentences.
The result of this study shows that there are four types of associative meaning and its functions. The first is connotative meaning; it creates an extra meaning that is caused by the difference in social, culture, and norm in language society. The second is stylistic meaning; it creates stylistic which appears in language. The third is affective meaning; it creates the feeling or emotion of speaker itself. Then, the last is collocative meaning; it is used to show the correlation between word meaning and other word meaning that has same location in a phrase.
In conclusion, different types show different functions. Certainly, the writer uses the associative meaning to perform their function which are related to the circumstance because it very appropriate to influence the reader to read.
Key words: (meaning, associative meaning, language of journalism)
Advisor I, The writer,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Meaning ... 7
2.2 The definition of Associative Meaning ... 9
2.3 The Types of Associative Meaning ... 11
Connotative Meaning ... 11
2.3.1 Stylistic Meaning ... 13
2.3.2 Affective Meaning ... 13
2.3.3 Collocative Meaning ... 14
2.4 Word and Sentence Meaning ... 15
2.5 Language of Journalism... 16
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design ... 19
3.2 Research Object ... 20
3.3 Research Instrument ... 20
3.4 Data Collection ... 20
3.5 Data Analysis ... 21
3.6 Triangulation ... 21
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Findings ... 22
4.1.2 The Function of Associative Meaning ... 35 4.2 Discussion ... 37
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 38
5.2 Suggestion ... 39
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problems,
purposes of the study, the significance of the study, scope and limitation, and
definition of the key terms. Its section is presented as follows.
1.1 Background of the Study
Actually, Allah hascreated human not only tobe filler and ornament, but human
have also been given task to be caliph in earth. Quran has stated in surah Al
Baqarah: 30,
“And when your Lord said to the angels, I am going to place in the earth a
caliph, they said: What! Wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and
shed blood, and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I
know what you do not know”.
Human is obligated to undergo their life by going into communities where they
are giving information or advise. It is written in Quran surah At Tawbah: 71,
“The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin
what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakat and
obey Allah and His Messenger. Those - Allah will have mercy upon them. Indeed,
Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise”.
One of the way to socialization, human interact by giving new information to
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language used. As it isknown that language is a media that is used to deliver ideas.
According to Todd (1995:6),“Language is set of signals by which we
communicate”.
Communication will not work when there is no person who understand about
language between speaker and receiver. Understanding about language is very
important. Language and meaning are like two sides of coin,hence talking about
language cannot be separatedfrom meaning. As stated above, understanding the
meaning is a key of knowing what speaker delivers to receiver can be received
clearly.Understanding about meaning is not only used in oral communication but
also in written communication.
Study about written communication is very interesting. By reading a text,
peopleare directed to find and follow the writer’s mind. Written communication
such as mass media, especially newspaper, is one of written communication which
brings fact. Due to public’s mass media, it is clear if the target of newspaper is
public. Barus (2010: 29) stated, “Public is mean a target or communicant from
communicator”. In addition, he told if public does not an institution. Just the
similarity of problem which is binds them. Therefore, they always amounted in
many because each of them has problems.Then, researcher cansay that newspaper
is read by many people.
Newspaper as a mass media is not only read by some people or some groups
but it is read by most of people. The reader is from any background either social
or intellectual. Newspaper is one of media of communication, so it requiresthe use
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It can help the reader easy to understand what the meaning of the message.The
good communication is reached by using efficient words and never writing not
useful words.
Despitethe factsreported, the displaying of compositing newspaper layout
becomes the priority. According to Suhandang (2010:115), “In order to influence
public, the beauty of displaying news is number one”.People who read newspaper
usually need few times. Therefore, writing news must use simple word and it is
not going around. Once in a while, the writer use attractive and ambiguous
language in order to make the reader interested. People are confused with some
ambiguous words, especially people who arefrom low education. According to
those descriptions, an analysis of the meaning is needed.
In this case, the researcher analyzes the meaning by using associative meaning.
According to Chaer (1995: 72)“Associative meaning is same as symbolism that
use by language community to express other concepts”.It is the meaning of words
that has connection or relationship between word and condition beyond the
language. Associative meaning can break up into four types; connotative,
stylistics, affective, and collocative meaning. In other word, associative meaning
will guide the reader to understand the content of news.
In this study, the researcher presents the associative meaning in the Jawa Pos.
It is a one of local newspaper that is built by The Chung Sen or Soeseno Tedjo on
June 1st 1949 in Surabaya.Named local newspaper, it doesn’t mean that Jawa Pos
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news, so Jawa Pos is being the rival of national newspaper.It makes Jawa Pos
being bigger than before beside the actuality and fact of news.
Susanto (2009) has conducted previous study about the same theme on
meaning entitled “An analysis of diction and meaning used in A-mild
advertisement”. He concluded that the diction of A-mild advertisement is
categorized in informal style and spoken style.
Based on the description above, the researcher’s curiosity appeared. He is
interested in analyzing associative meaning used in Jawa Pos with the tittle “An
analysis of Associative Meaning Used inJawa Pos”.
1.2 Problems of the Study
Based on the background above, this research is formulated to answer the
problems as followed:
1. What associative meanings are used in Jawa Pos?
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1.3 Purpose of the study
Relating to the studies above, this study intends:
1. To know the associative meanings are used in some Jawa Pos.
2. To know the function of associative meanings are used in some Jawa Pos.
1.4 Significance of the Study
Particularly, the research of this study is expected to present helpful donation
to English, especially in the area of discourse analysis. So far, this is expected to
give comprehension to the readers on the semantics, especially on associative
meaning used in newspaper. Besides, the researcher hopes that this study could
give contribution to lecturers, students of English Department, and advertisers.
For the lecturers, the finding of this study can help them in teachingon the
semantics, especially on associative meaning used in newspaper when they try to
use newspaper as the teaching materials. In the one hand, this study is expected
togive contribution to students of English Department in order to broaden their
English knowledge by understanding the associative meaning used in newspaper.
It is also helpful forstudent wholikes writing or wants to be a journalist. The last,
the researcher hopes that this study is useful for other researchers, the researcher
hopes the result of the research could be reference for them to analyze newspaper
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1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study
In order that the research enables to answer the statement of the problems, the
researcher needs to emphasize in scope and limitation. There are many sections
involved in Jawa Pos newspaper, but the researcher only focuses his attention on
Jawa Pos newspaper which published on August 17th 2013 to 21th 2013 as the
scope because at those times, there are posted corruption in SKK Migas that
committed by Rudi, war in Egypt that caused the military had deposed the
president, etc. The limitation of this research is only focuses in associative
meaning used in Opinion page of Jawa Pos.
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms
Associative meaning : Associative meaning is same as symbolism that use
by language community to express other
concepts.(Chaer, 1995: 72)
News : Reports or notices of any actual events that attract
