Ellipsis and Substitution in The Jakarta Post article “New Zealand orders

top-level into mosque massacres”

Diannisa Nur Laeli

English Department, IKIP Siliwangi Bandung
Diannisa.nurl@gmail.com

Abstract

This study discusses ellipsis and substitution which are found in the utterances contained in a
The Jakarta Post article entitled "New Zealand orders for top-level inquiry into mosque
massacres". Substitutions and ellipsis have the same type divided into three parts, namely nouns,
verbs and clauses. The results of this study show that there are not many ellipses and
substitutions that can be found in this article.

Keywords: ellipsis, substitution, article

INTRODUCTION

Language is a communication tool that is used everyday to communicate with others. Languages
can be oral and written. Text is the fixation or implementation of an event of oral discourse in
written form. Ellipsis is the removal of one part of the sentence element. Actually the ellipsis is
the same as substitution, but the ellipsis is substituted by something empty. Ellipsis is usually
done by removing the discourse elements mentioned earlier, Sudaryat (2008: 155). Whereas
according to Mulyana (2005: 280) Ellipsis (disappearance / disappearance) is the process of
removing words or other linguistic units. The form or element that is applied can be estimated
from the context of the language or context outside the language. And according to (Halliday and
Hassan, 1976) Ellipsis is a deletion in a structure where something needed is not mentioned by
structure. That can be called "byzero substitution". Similar to substitution, ellipsis has three
types, namely nominal ellipses, verbal ellipses and clause ellipses. Nominal ellipsis means
ellipsis in nominal groups, verbal ellipsis are ellipsis in verbal groups (Halliday and Hasan, 1976:
167). Then, the clause ellipse is a place that occurs in clauses (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 197).

Substitution is a process and the result of substitution by elements of language with other
elements in a larger unit, Mulyana (2005: 28). Replacement is done to obtain a distinguishing
element or explain a certain structure. In line with these opinions Sudaryat (2008: 154) states that
substitution refers to the substitution of words in other words. In addition, Sudaryat (2008: 154)
says that substitution is similar to reference, but the difference in reference is the relationship of
meaning, while substitution is a lexical or grammatical relationship. In addition, substitution can
be in the form of a verb, that is, words that are used to indicate actions, circumstances, things, or
contents of the discourse that have been mentioned before or after it can also be substitution
clauses, for example one, the same, as such, so, so, so, do the same thing. Halliday and Hassan
(1976: 89) define substitution is a connection of words or phrases that use one, one and the same
repetition. Substitution has three types. They are nominal substitution, verbal substitution and
clause substitution. Nominal is a substitute for the substitute a noun, which is used to substitute a
verb, which is used to substitute an entire group (Halliday and Hassan: 1976).

The researcher will analyze Ellipsis and Substitution in the utterances found in the top-level
inquiry into the mosque massacres, because the news is one of the news that is being widely
discussed on all social media, the massacre of the mosque in New Zealand occurred on Friday ,
March 19, 2019.

METHOD

The research data was taken from the words contained in The Jakarta Post article entitled New
Zealand orders top-level inquiry into mosque massacres. Data were analyzed qualitatively using
descriptive methods, according to Whintney (1960) descriptive method is a process of finding
facts with the right interpretation. Descriptive methods are not only limited to data collection, but
also include analysis and interpretation of the meaning of data.
FINDING DISCUSSION

Researchers found research findings based on data analysis, the authors can identify and describe
the ellipsis and substitution in the utterances in the article. There are three utterances in the
article, as follow:

First Utterance:

"It is important that no stone is left unturned to get to how this act of terrorism
occurred and how we could have stopped it," she told reporters.

Second Utterance:

"One question we need to answer is whether or not we could or should have

known more," Ardern said.

Thrid Utterance:

"New Zealand is not a surveillance state ... but questions need to be answered."

In the first utterance there is a substitution which in the word "stopped it" refers to or replaces the
word "act of terrorism".

In the two words of the statement there are no ellipses and substitutions, because there the
sentence is not clear and very simple.

In the third utterance there is an ellipse which in the word "the questions need to be answered"
which refers to the previous statement which is the second utterance "whether or not we could or
should have known more".

The subject in the previous sentence is often released in the second sentence, but the information
that the writer wants to convey is still well conveyed. These ellipses all occur in the subject part
of the sentence.
CONCLUSION

In this study we know how to distinguish ellipsis and substitution in an article entitled "New
Zealand orders top-level inquiry into mosque massacres". In general, there are not many findings
that we can find in the words contained in the article, because it is a little difficult to find ellipsis
and substitution if only a few utterances are there, but it will be easier if we know and understand
the contents of the article first.

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