Contextual Meaning in Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tales

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