TITLE “THE USE OF WORD RELATIONSHIPS IN BUILDING STORIES IN BINTANG UNTUK LOWI”

Abstrak

This research is intended to investigate lexical relation in the text "Bintang untuk Lowi" as a story appeared in Bobo children magazine. Basing on Murphy’s (2010) theory described in the book Lexical Meaning, the bibliography categorise the following notions of lexical relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, homonymy, and polysemy. This is in line with the notion that lexical relationships contribute to the construction of meaning and that they assist readers in the processing of the story and characters and its values packed within the narrative. This paper also provides data in the visualization form of sentence quotes in the text, side by side with the semantic analysis of the lexical relations that these data enclose.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis hubungan leksikal (lexical relations) dalam teks "Bintang untuk Lowi", sebuah cerita dari majalah anak-anak Bobo. Menggunakan teori Murphy (2010) dari buku Lexical Meaning, jenis hubungan leksikal yang dikaji meliputi sinonimi, antonimi, hiponimi, homonimi, dan polisemi. Analisis ini menyoroti bagaimana relasi leksikal membantu membangun makna dan mendukung pemahaman pembaca terhadap cerita, karakter, serta nilai-nilai yang disampaikan dalam narasi. Penelitian ini juga menampilkan data berupa kutipan kalimat dalam teks, disertai analisis semantik berdasarkan relasi leksikal yang dikandungnya.