An Entailment of Dead Days Comic

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%