Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star
Since the Covid-19 vaccination rollout, the news media has played an important role in reporting the vaccine-related news to reduce the risk of getting and spreading the Covid-19 disease. However, people nowadays are preoccupied with busy schedules that they just glance at the news headlines and det...
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| description | Since the Covid-19 vaccination rollout, the news media has played an important role in reporting the vaccine-related news to reduce the risk of getting and spreading the Covid-19 disease. However, people nowadays are preoccupied with busy schedules that they just glance at the news headlines and determine what they imply. If a word, phrase or sentence in the headlines has more than one interpretation, they may misinterpret them and receive the wrong information. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the lexical ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccines headlines of The Star news, as well as to determine how these types of ambiguities affected the readers’ interpretation of the headlines. After collecting the headlines from The Star news, the definitions of the words and phrases were deduced using Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, while the sentence structures were identified using parsing. A questionnaire was also disseminated to the respondents to obtain additional interpretations of the words or sentences. Next, a semi-structured interview was conducted with nine participants from three different educational backgrounds. The interviews were then transcribed and analysed thematically. The findings revealed that the lexical ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity existed in the vaccine-related news headlines in The Star, with 5 lexical ambiguities and 3 syntactic ambiguities. Nonetheless, the participants were not affected by these types of ambiguities because of the context and their knowledge of the topic. The research study also posed a few limitations and research gaps, where the other considerations and a larger sample of participants could be taken into account. |
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| spelling | utar-50862023-04-18T13:33:25Z Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star Chang, Chui Shan H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) LA History of education Since the Covid-19 vaccination rollout, the news media has played an important role in reporting the vaccine-related news to reduce the risk of getting and spreading the Covid-19 disease. However, people nowadays are preoccupied with busy schedules that they just glance at the news headlines and determine what they imply. If a word, phrase or sentence in the headlines has more than one interpretation, they may misinterpret them and receive the wrong information. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the lexical ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccines headlines of The Star news, as well as to determine how these types of ambiguities affected the readers’ interpretation of the headlines. After collecting the headlines from The Star news, the definitions of the words and phrases were deduced using Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, while the sentence structures were identified using parsing. A questionnaire was also disseminated to the respondents to obtain additional interpretations of the words or sentences. Next, a semi-structured interview was conducted with nine participants from three different educational backgrounds. The interviews were then transcribed and analysed thematically. The findings revealed that the lexical ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity existed in the vaccine-related news headlines in The Star, with 5 lexical ambiguities and 3 syntactic ambiguities. Nonetheless, the participants were not affected by these types of ambiguities because of the context and their knowledge of the topic. The research study also posed a few limitations and research gaps, where the other considerations and a larger sample of participants could be taken into account. 2022-01 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5086/1/fyp_EL_2022_CCS.pdf Chang, Chui Shan (2022) Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5086/ |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) LA History of education Chang, Chui Shan Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title | Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title_full | Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title_fullStr | Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title_short | Lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| title_sort | lexical and syntactic ambiguity in the vaccine of the star |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) LA History of education |
| url | http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5086/ http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5086/1/fyp_EL_2022_CCS.pdf |