Abstract:
In English language, a word, a phrase or a sentence sometimes have more
than one meaning which is called ambiguity. The objective of this research is to
find the types of ambiguity sentences and the most dominant of ambiguity.
The researcher analyzes the structural ambiguity and the lexical ambiguity
in textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XI Semester 1”. The
researcher uses descriptive qualitative method for this theis because the data
produced are in the forms of word rather than number. The researcher takes some
words, phrases and sentences from the textbook and analyzes which one that
follows the syntatic ambiguity and semantic ambiguity.
The result of the research is found 33 data of ambiguity.The structural
ambiguity represents about 33.3%. It is included noun phrase 1.0%. While the
lexical ambiguity represents about 66,7%. It is included noun 41.8%, verb 29.1%
and adjective 29.1%. it means mostly lexical ambiguity happen in word noun.
Furthermore, the researcher can get the conclusion the most dominant ambiguity
is lexical ambiguity that is 66,7%. The researcher suggests to other researcher
better to use tree diagram that labellled bracket in analyzing ambiguity. Analyzing
the sentence structure by using tree diagram will give clearer explanation than
using labelled bracket.
