AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DICTION ON SPEAKING ENGLISH BY THE THIRD SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM

ZAUQUNY, QASYPIA (2020) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DICTION ON SPEAKING ENGLISH BY THE THIRD SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM. undergraduate thesis, ["eprint_fieldopt_institution_Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram" not defined].

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Abstract

Diction, in it’s original, primary meaning, refers to writers’ or speaker distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression. Diction covers which definition of words is used to convey an idea, how to form a group of words which is precise or to use for a situation. Therefore, the aims of this research were to analyze the diction that were commonly used and how the diction commonly used by the third semester of English Department. The results of this research indicated that the diction commonly used by the third semester are abstract word (20%) an example “Happiness is the secret sauce that can help us be and do our best”, scientific word (14.5%) an example “The structure of the human will not support”, connotative meaning (12.74%) an example “Happiness is more than a good felling or a yellow smiley face”, concrete word (9.09%) an example “For getting smart phone and getting internet you need have money”, special word (7.27%) an example “A big part of how happy we are depends on our mindset”, and slang (7.27%) an example “Maybe yesterday is your fucking failure and then you give up but today is your struggle.” Keywords: Diction, speaking

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