THE ANALYSIS OF INTERJECTIONS USED IN CHRIS MCCOY’S COMIC SAFELY ENDANGERED AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEACHING SPEAKING FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This thesis is a study of interjection analysis of utterances by the character in Safely Endangered comic. This study aims to identify the types and functions of interjection used by the character in Safely Endangered comic and to describe the application of the type and function of interjection found in Safely Endangered comic in teaching speaking at the eighth grade of Junior High School. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data of this study is Safely Endangered comic. The instrument of the study is the researcher. In collecting data, the researcher used document analysis. The researcher used inductive type to analyse the data. The result of this study shows there are 381 interjections used by the character in Safely Endangered comic classified into two types of interjection and five functions of interjection. For types of interjection, there are primary interjection (164 utterances or 43%), and secondary interjection (217 utterances or 57%). Then the function of interjections, are emotive (127 interjections or 33%), conative (95 interjections 25%), phatic (42 interjections or 11%), referential (91 interjections or 24%), and metalinguistic (26 interjections or 7%). Those interjections are used to express certain feelings and emotions of a person that cannot be easily expressed in common sentences because interjections are used to give different meanings to different situations. Based on the result, the types and functions of interjection used by the character in Safely Endangered comic can be applied in teaching speaking at the eighth grade of Junior High School.