Analysis of onomatopoeia in webtoon application Refund High School

Rinaldy, Nurulita (2020) Analysis of onomatopoeia in webtoon application Refund High School. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati.

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Abstract

Comic is a picture book that tells about many stories, which have texts to describe the character in comic mean to do. In this era, comic can be read not only in the form of book but it would be more practical if the reader opens it through the application. One of the popular online comic application today is webtoon. Webtoon is a combination of web and cartoon. Therefore, the object of this undergraduate thesis is comic Refund High School in webtoon application which is focusing on study of onomatopoeia. there are some questions focused by the researcher: 1) What are the types of sound symbolism of onomatopoeia words in comic Refund High School?; 2) What are lexical meaning and contextual meaning of those onomatopoeia words in comic Refund High School? This research is designed in a qualitative approach using content analysis method. This research used theory of sound symbolism from Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols and John J. Ohala (1994), and semantics meaning used theory of lexical meaning and contextual meaning from Lyon (1995). There are seventy-two onomatopoeia applied in comic Refund High School. The result of data analysis shows types of sound symbolism that often appears in this comic is synthetic sound symbolism to symbolize the non acoustic phenomena such as movement, size, and shape. The second is corporeal sound symbolism to reveal the internal condition of the speaker, the emotional and physical condition. The last, types of sound symbolism that appears in this comic is imitative sound symbolism that represent the sounds of nature or environment. The meaning that often appears in this comic is lexical meaning which concerns on the meaning based on the dictionary definition. The second is contextual meaning which concern with the meaning based on situation.

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