Sentence structure and semantics meaning of some University Slogans in Indonesia

Atsari, Afina (2016) Sentence structure and semantics meaning of some University Slogans in Indonesia. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

The writer focused on a discussion of the sentence structure and semantics meaning of some university slogans in Indonesia. The background of the research is English usage in daily life. English is used by the people in every aspects even in slogan. The study analyzed about how the sentence is constructed and how the function of the word on a sentence presented is. The theories are used to analyze the sentence structure and semantics meaning.The main theories are about syntactical categories by Aarts and Semantics Meaning by Kridalaksana. Then, supported theories about sentence structure and semantics meaning are O’Grady (1987), Leech (1981) and Aminudin (2001) which are consist of part of sentences and kinds of meaning. Data are taken directly from the officially university website of each slogans. The writer chose university slogans that written in English and collect them to be an object of the research. The writer used an objective approach to analyze the data. Furthermore, the method is used in this research is descriptive method. The finding result of the analysis there are four types of sentence structure and three types of Semantics meaning of some university slogans. The types of sentence structure are Noun Phrase, Prepositional Phrase, Adjective Phrase and Adverb clause. The types of Semantics meaning are Conceptual meaning, Connotative meaning and Thematic meaning. Based on the result of the analysis, the sentence structure from 50 data that analyzed there are 29 slogans noun phrase and 21 slogans are slogan that consist of noun phrase, prepositional phrase, verb phrase and adverb phrase. Then, the semantics meaning from 50 data are 34 Conceptual meaning, 11 thematic meaning and 5 connotative meaning. It can be concluded that the most used sentence structure on University slogans is Noun phrase. Therefore, the most used Semantics meaning on University Slogan is Conceptual meaning.

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