Listiana, Yogi (2014) An Analysis of The Students' Understanding on Lexical And Structural Ambiguity Form in 'Your Letters' of The Jakarta Post. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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Abstract

It has been widely accepted that language has a meaning it is a spoken language or a written language. We learn the meaning in semantics. Semantics is study of meaning that used to understand human expression through language. The word semantics itself indicate a range of ideas, from the popular to the highly technical. It is often used in ordinary language to indicate a problem of comprehension that loss to word selection or connection. Ambiguity is problems or happening relating to the double meanings in the language of science.

This research desing relating to the double meanings in the language of science. This research design is qualitative. The data were collected by interview and documentation. The sample in this research is 10 students at seventh semester in English Study Program of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. This research used data analysis by Miles and Huberman model conducted the following steps: garthering the data, grouping the data, selecting/displaying, and interpretation.

The research result shows that 40% students said that semantics subject is easy. The other 60% students said that semantics subject is difficult. The students 20% stated that they often read Jakarta Post newspaper, other 80% the students seldom read Jakarta Post newspaper. It can be concluded that written text Jakarta newspaper difficult to interpret the meaning of the words appearing in the newspapers. The students 40% are high in understanding lexical and structural ambiguity form, and 60% the students are low to understand lexical and structural ambiguity form in "Your Letters" of the Jakarta Post. It caused of the students confused to understand the words or sentences that have ambiguity. It shows that students who understand ambiguity form a little more than students who do not understand ambiguity form have a high percentage

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