THE LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY ANALYSIS OF NEWS ITEM TEXT CONSISTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK “LOOK AHEAD” USED BY THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out what ambiguity occurred in the text. What is kind of phrase possibly ambiguous and what the meaning. This aim reaches when the researcher analyze the example of news item consisted in English textbook “Look Ahead” used by the first grade students of Senior High School. This research is stated as descriptive qualitative research. The researcher focuses on the words and phrases possibly ambiguous. The researcher organizing and preparing the data for analysis, readingthrough all the data and finding sentence or phrase potentially ambiguous, mark the words and phrase that are ambiguous, findingthe meaning, and making a note and list. The result of the research founds 11 ambiguous found in the example of News Item text consisted in English textbook “Look Ahead”, 45.45% for lexical ambiguity words. It’s included noun, 3 cases and verb, 2 cases. And 54.54% for structural ambiguity phrases. It’s included 4 cases for noun phrase, adjective phrase 1 case, and prepositional phrase 1 case. So, the researcher can get the conclusion that the writer of this text likes to use a confusing phrase form. The researcher hopes that the students, especially English students in university explore the other texts and analyze more deeply about the lexical and structural ambiguity.