THE AMBIGUITY OF MEANING DELINEATED IN THE NEWS COVERAGE ON COVID-19 VACCINATION CONTROVERSY DURING THE PANDEMIC IN THE JAKARTA POST

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.