Abstract:
Meaning covers a wide range of human perseption.This study deal with the
analysis contextual meaning in the Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tales. The objectives of
the study were to figure out types of contextual meaning. The data in this research
was taken from Sleeping Beauty story by Les Clark. The story consisted of 29
pages and all of pages were taken as the data. Descriptive qualitative method of
Miles and Huberman was applied to analyzed the data. The first, identifying the
data, such as words, phrases, sentences in the story. The second, classifiying or
reduction the data. The third, interpreting the data. And the fourth, drawing the
conclusion. From the data obtained, there were one hundred six (106) utterances
found in the Sleeping Beauty story. It was found that 4 types of Contextual
Meaning in this research, there were Local Context (LC) 9, Sentential Context
(SC) 57, Topical Context (TC) 20, and Global Context (GC) 20. Then the types of
contextual meaning were analyzed. This study is highly expected to give
contribution for the reader to know about contextual meaning clearly. It can help
the reader know contextual meaning, speak English fluently, and understand the
meaning in a story. And it can also be expected to enrich new English vocabulary
used in the daily conversation
