TYPES OF FIGURES OF SPEECH USED IN THE TOURISM COMPANIES'WEB ADVERTISEMENT
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https://doi.org/10.23887/jpbi.v5i2.10628Abstract
Studi ini merupakan sebuah studi deskriptif kualitatif yang menganalisa tentang penggunaan majas (figure of speech) oleh perusahaan-perusahaan yang bergerak dalam bidang pariwisata dalam penulisan headline iklannya yang ditemukan pada alamat website perusahaan tersebut. 75 headline yang berasal dari 72 perusahaan jasa pariwisata terkemuka di Bali dipilih sebagai obyek penelitian dalam studi ini. Seluruh data dianalisis secara deskriptif dengan menggunakan analisis dari isi iklan tersebut dan tabel persentase yang bertujuan untuk menentukan jenis majas yang paling banyak digunakan pada headline iklan-iklan pariwisata yang dimaksud. Kategori majas yang digunakan sebagai acuan penelitian pada studi ini adalah berdasarkan klasifikasi majas yang dikemukakan oleh Corbett (1961). Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa kebanyakan dari perusahaan-perusahaan tersebut menggunakan majas dalam penulisan headlinenya. Kategori trope dan grammatical structure/scheme banyak muncul pada data. 48% majas yang yang digunakan pada headline tergolong kedalam kategori tropes, sedangkan 52% merupakan kategori schemes. Kategori majas yang banyak digunakan iklan tersebut adalah tropes khususnya metaphor (10.7%), hyperbole (9.3%), dan personification (6.7%). Jenis majas lain yang juga sering digunakan adalah schemes seperti asyndeton (6.7%), assonance (5.3%), end rhyme (5.3%), internal rhyme (4%), polyptoton (4%), dan ellipsis (4%). Faktor penentu yang menyebabkan majas sering digunakan pada penulisan headline oleh para penerbit iklan adalah karena majas dapat memberi efek ‘prosaik’ yang dapat mempengaruhi pikiran para pembaca. Hal ini dipercaya dapat menarik minat pembaca untuk membeli produk yang diiklankan. Sebagai unsur penting dalam penulisan headline sebuah iklan, majas dianjurkan untuk diteliti lebih mendalam dalam penelitian-penelitian yang sama selanjutnya, khususnya dalam hal yang berkaitan dengan kegiatan promosi produk-produk pariwisata. Hal ini dipercaya dapat memberi keuntungan bagi pengguna jasa iklan dan praktisi yang bergerak dibidang pariwisata.Kata Kunci : headline, iklan ,majas
This present study was a descriptive qualitative study which concerned in analyzing the used of figures of speech in tourism companies’ advertisement found in web-sites. There were 75 ads-headlines which randomly selected from 72 leading tourism companies in Bali were used as the objects of the study. The data were analyzed descriptively by providing content analysis and a percentage table which were intended to find out the executional factors and the prominent types of figures used in the headlines. The figures examined in this study, were based on Corbett’s (1961) classification. The results showed that most of tourism companies in Bali used various types of figures in their headline. The figures of trope and grammatical structure/ scheme appeared almost evenly in the data. There were 48% figures belonged to the category of tropes, while the rest, 52% belonged to the schemes. The most prominent figures used on the advertisements were the category of tropes, particulary metaphor (10.7%), hyperbole (9.3%), and personification (6.7%). Other figures, as the part of schemes were also frequently used, such as asyndeton (6,7%), assonance (5.3%), end rhyme (5.3%), internal rhyme (4%), polyptoton (4%), and ellipsis (4%). The executional factor by which the figures commonly applied by the ads-publishers in headline was determined by the extended ‘prosaic’ effect of those kinds of figurative language to the reader’s mind. This phenomenon might impact on the readers’ curiosity to get in the products sale. As the most pominent element used in headline advertisement, figures of speech were recommended to be intensely examined by further researchers or tourism practitioners, especially in dealing with promotional activities or products campaign. It is believed that this concern might give benefits to ads users and practitioners of tourism industry.
keyword : advertisement, figures of speech, headline
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2017-07-14
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