Lexical ambiguities in opinion column of Time Magazine

ABSTRACT

The meaning of the sentence depends upon the meaning of its constituent lexemes and the meaning of some lexemes depends upon the meaning of the sentences in which they occur. Even meaning has ambiguities when it has multiple meanings.

This research investigates the ambiguities meaning that are homonymy and polysemy which implied in opinion column of Time magazine. In the first problem, the researcher focuses on kind of lexical ambiguities are used in column opinion of Time Magazine. The second, researcher continuous to find explanation about how lexical ambiguities used in column opinion of Time Magazine are.

To investigate these questions, the researcher uses semantic approach. Every meaning in opinion column of Time magazine is analyzed by using lexical ambiguities’ theory those are homonymy and polyemy. In analyzing these texts, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative approach because the data are in the form of texts which selected from the online Time Magazine, published in New York 1923.

Based on the analysis, the researcher finds out that there are homonymy and polysemy meaning in opinion column of Time magazine. The homonymy is mostly happen in the article of Time magazine. The polysemy meaning is also happen in some articles in opinion column of Time magazine. For the next researchers are suggested to use different data sources, such as oral work like daily conversation which can be formal or informal dialogue or in any written work such as the translation of Holly Qur’an.