ABSTRACT
This research entitled A Semantic Analysis of the Idioms Used in The Jakarta Post Short Stories is aimed at giving the description of idioms in the Jakarta post short stories. It focuses on the kinds of idiom and the relationship between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning of the idiom commonly used in the Jakarta post short stories.
This research belongs to qualitative type. It does not use any statistical procedure. The writer takes idioms in the Jakarta post short stories. The process of collecting the data analysis includes data reduction, data display and conclusion. First, data reduction is done. In this stage, the data are selected. Data reduction involves the short story which contains the idiom. The second step is display. The selected data are classified. The idiom is classified into the kinds and the relationship between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning. Based on the display of the data, the idiom words in the Jakarta post short stories are analyzed carefully to find out the kinds of idiom and the relationship between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning of the idiom.
The result of the study shows that the idioms found in the Jakarta post short stories are based on the kinds and the relationship between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning. The kinds of idiom found are endocentric and exocentric idiom. The relationship between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning of the idiom can be analyzed into fully endocentric, partly endocentric and partly exocentric, and fully exocentric.
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