CONSTITUENT ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY OF SENTENCES IN BBC NEWS TITLES

Revalan, Desko (2023) CONSTITUENT ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY OF SENTENCES IN BBC NEWS TITLES. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research discusses the structural ambiguity of the sentences that occur in BBC News’ Titles. This research is aimed to investigate the structural ambiguity in the news titles of BBC News and find out the realization of structural ambiguity in BBC News’ Titles. In conducting the research, the researcher used non-participatory observation and purposive sampling as the data collection methods. The theories used in this research are constituent analysis (Burton Roberts, 2016), tree diagram theory (Burton Roberts, 2022), and also types of structural ambiguity (Hirst, 1987). There were fifteen news titles collected from the BBC News website as the involved data. The researcher collected structural ambiguities found in the sentence structures in fifteen news titles on BBC News. As the result, the attachment ambiguity is found in all data. There are two types of attachment ambiguity found by the researcher. The first type is some attachment ambiguity that has a problem with modifier placement at the end of the sentence. The second type of attachment ambiguity has a problem with modifier placement in the middle of the sentence.

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