CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter burrows background of study, statement of problem, purpose of

the study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms.

1.1 Research Background

Figurative language is a conspicuous departure from what users of a language

apprehend as the standard meaning of words, or else the standard order of words,

in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. Each one written and spoken

form of language may consist of speech sounds, letters, words, phrases, clauses

whichever arrange within a board conformations. Human are frequently

composing new expressions and novel articulated by operating their linguistic

resources to convey new phenomenons and situations (Yule, 2010). Figures are

sometimes described as primarily poetic, but they are integral to the functioning of

language and indispensable to all modes of discourse. Figurative language can be

found in commentator of football. The commentator often has onerous words to

understand, because sometimes he uses the implicit sentences.

Figurative language is also used in YouTube. It is a tool to entertain those who

see it. Basically, people would like to watch YouTube because the people need to

reinvigorate their mind and the solution is YouTube itself. YouTube is a website

where creative content creators can upload anything for the world to see.

(Wethington, 2018). One of the YouTube channels is playing football and in that

channel there is a football commentator.

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 Ray Hudson is a comentator from England and famous with his hilarious

expression. When one of the players of football is dribling a ball, he always tries

to use a new word to give a comment to him such as, he soaks up the defenders

like a paper towel soaks up milk, it is like he is playing tambourine on his knee,

his freekick is like an ecstasy, this is not just a dream it is a wet dream of orgasmic

proportions and many other unique wordings that he said when he was becoming

a commentator.

There have been so many studies about an analysis of figurative language in

order to gain data for this study, the research of figurative language has also been

investigated by the number of researchers such as Khoiriyah (2016), Yatma

(2015), and Masruri (2011).The first previous study that is done by Khoiriyah in

2016. Her study is looking for the types of figurative language used in movie

script of Frozen and how the use of figurative language in the script helps to build

the message conveyed in the Frozen movie. In the result of her research, she

found that there are ten types of figurative language used in the Frozen movie

script and sixteen figurative languages that can build the moral message.

The second previous research which has been investigated by Yatma in 2015.

Her research explains about two problems. The first problem is the types of

figurative language in O. Henry’s selected stories. The second problem is to

describe the meaning and the message of figurative language in O.Henry’s

selected stories. In the result of her research, she found that there are eight Similes

data, six pleonasms data, five hyperbolas data, five rhetorics data, four repetitions

data and, two metaphors data. The data were based on four stories by O. Henry.

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Based on her findings, there are two kinds of messages from four short stories by

O. Henry;also, there are moral messages and social messages.

The which has been investigated by Masruri in 2011. His research explains

about the kinds of figurative used on the lyrics of Westlife’s selected songs, the

general meanings of lyrics in Westlife’s selected songs and the message in every

Westlife’s selected song’s lyric. He used 10 songs of Westlife. He found that there

are nine kinds of figurative language used in the lyrics of Westlife’s selected

songs and ten general meanings of every song that he selected from Westlife’s

songs.

In order to get the data for this study, the writer focuses on figurative

languages which are used mainly in Ray Hudson Football match comments

because of very few researcher who conducted study of figurative language on

football commentator. In addition, football commentator can be interest, popular,

and great source for those who want to investigate further.

1.2 Research Problems

Related to the backgrounds of the study above, the formulations of the

research problems are:

1. What are the types of figurative languages that were used in Ray Hudson’s

selected comments?

2. What are the meanings of figurative language that were used on Ray

Hudson’s selected comments?

3. What is the dominant type of figurative language that was used in Ray

Hudson’s selected comments?

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1.3 Research Objectives

1. To find out the types figurative language used in Ray Hudson’s selected

comments.

2. To describe the meanings of figurative language that were used on Ray

Hudson’s selected comments.

3. To find out the dominant type of figurative language on Ray Hudson’s

selected comments.

1.4 Scope and Limitation

The scope of this research is specifically on the analysis of the figurative

language used in Ray Hudson’s comments. The Limitation of this research is

Analysis of Figurative Language in Ray Hudson’s comments word in a match

between Real madrid vs Barcelona on Final La Liga 2015.

1.5 Research Significance

Theoretically, this research is expected to enrich the knowledge about

figurative language and help to understand the figurative language better.

Practically, this research is to give a contribution to the further researcher

especially for English department’s students who want to study about figurative

language or for students who want to use this research as the previous research for

their reference.

1.6 The definition of Key Term

Here are the key terms to avoid misunderstanding in this research as follows:

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1. Figurative language expresses the interpretation of figures beyond their real

meaning (Colston, 2015).

2. Youtube is a website where creative content creators can upload anything for

the world to see (Wethington, 2018).

3. Ray Hudson is an English retired professional footballer and former manager

who is currently working on Bein Sports and Radio host as an English language

football commentator. He is quite simply, the funniest, most enthusiathic, and

entertaining man in commentating football (Maloney, 2009).