Monday, March 17, 2008

A STUDY ON CONNOTATIVE MEANING OF POLITICAL JARGON USED IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S SPEECHES AND LETTERS: A SEMANTIC STUDY

By:
Ahmad Ibnu Mafuludin
NIM. 02026003


ABSTRACT


The research entitled A Study on Connotative Meaning of Political Jargon used in Abraham Lincoln’s Speeches and Letters: a Semantic Study is aimed at finding out the forms of connotative meaning of political jargon and connotative meaning found in Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and letters.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method which focuses on the analysis of textual data. The data are parts of speech which have connotative meaning of political jargon used in Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and letters. There are three steps in method of collecting data. First, data are collected by noting technique. Second, data are selected. And the last, the selected data are classified into its forms of parts of speech which consist of words and phrases. To collect the data, the researcher uses noting technique and observation. After all data are collected, noted and observed, the researcher analyzes the data using qualitative method. At first the data will be analyzed by using referential and distributional method. Then the data are identified by using contextual analysis based on its connotative types. The data are selected and classified by using referential and distributional method to find out the forms of the part of speech. Then the data are analyzed by contextual analysis to find out the meaning of the data, and the last step is drawing the conclusion.

The result of this research shows that the forms of parts of speech which have connotative meaning of political jargon used in Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and letters are words and phrases. The forms of words are nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The forms of phrases are noun phrases, verb phrases, and adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases. The types of nouns are collective nouns, proper nouns, and abstract nouns. The types of verb are predicating verbs. The types of adjectives that the researcher finds are descriptive adjectives. The types of noun phrases are collective and countable noun phrases. The types of verb phrases are auxiliary verb phrases. The types of adverb phrases are manners and intensifying adverb phrases. And the types of prepositional phrases are physical relationship of position.

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