Abstract:
The aim of this study was to analyze linguistic phenomenon of entailment in the
Dead Days comic, the conversation all characters in Dead Days comic. This study
had two objectives. They were to identify the types of entailment and the
dominant types of entailment. This study employed a descriptive qualitative
method since it emphasized on describe the phenomenon of entailment in Dead
Days comic. Moreover, the findings were presented in tabulating. However,
number was also used to support the analysis of the data. This study reveals two
findings. First, there are four types of entailment occur in the main character’s
utterances in the Dead Days comic. They are one-way entailment, two-way
entailment, negative entailment, and metaphorical entailment. One-way
entailment which occurs 27 times is the first rank since it is the most common
entailment uttered by people. Then, the second rank is negative entailment which
occurs 19 times since it covers all utterances containing entailment which are
expressed using negative form. After that, two-way entailment places on the third
rank which has five occurrences. That type of entailment is to strengthen the idea
with an explicit way. Finally, metaphorical entailment only occurs four times
since this kind of entailment is rarely found in people’s utterances. The dominant
types of entailment in Dead Days comic was one-way entailment with 27 times or
49.10%
