Abstract:
This study were conducted with the kinds of word Ambiguity in the content of
news in The Jakarta Post website. The aims of this research 1) to find out the
types of word ambiguity in the news content of the Jakarta Post website, 2)find
out the explanation of ambiguity in news content of the Jakarta Post website and3)
to create the reasons of the ambiguity word that indicated in the Jakarta Post
statements. The data were taken from the Jakarta Post contents about vaccination
programs. The numbers of data were five news about vaccination programs. The
types of ambiguity were identified based on Kathz theory. The research applied a
qualitative descriptive that established the requirement that a study must be
carried on the basis existing fact. The method used to collect data was
documentation. The techniques of collecting data, reading, were choosing, and
underlining. The data were analyzed by data condensation, data display,
concluding drawing and verification. In the Jakarta Post there were 100 news
about Covid 19 topics, The researcher took 5 news contents about vaccination that
related to the research study. There were 37 statements that contained ambiguous
meaning. In the statements of contents there were four types of ambiguity found
in phonetic, structural, lexical and referential ambiguity. There were 1 sentence
were phonetic ambiguity, while the other 16 sentences were lexical ambiguity, 3
sentences structural ambiguity and 17 sentences referential ambiguity.
