An Analysis of English Lexical Collocation Found in English Newspaper

Abstract

This study was conducted to find out the answer of question about what the English lexical collocation found in English Newspaper, The Jakarta Post. This study was designed as a descriptive qualitative research and data of the study was described in form of qualitative description. The data was taken from the headlines of the Jakarta post newspaper which published on April 4 th -9 th 2016. The sources of the data in this study were sentences and utterances that contain collocation. Human instrument was the only instrument used in collecting and analyzing the data gathered. The result of this study showed that (1) there were fourty four English lexical collocations found in the Jakarta post newspaper and (2) the meanings of English lexical collocation were fourty three had denotative meaning and one had connotative meaning.Keywords: english lexical collocation, words meaning, the Jakarta post 2019. Linguistics, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal 2 (2):100-115 102 LITERATURE REVIEW The Concept of CollocationCollocation is a combination of word that is commonly used together. According to McCarthy and O'Dell (2008:6), a collocation is a pair or group of words that are often used together. These combinations sound natural to native speakers, but students of English have to make a special effort to learn them because they are often difficult to guess. These combinations just sound right to native speakers of English who use them all the time. On other hand, other combinations may be unnatural and just sound wrong. For example, the adjective fast collocates with cars, but not with a glance.In addition, Benson et.al, (1986:252) explains that In English, as in other languages, there are many fixed, identifiable, non-idiomatic phrases and constructions, such group of words are called recurrent combination or collocation. Collocations are fixed phrases stored in the mind. Lewis (cited in Alfahadi et.al, 2014:390) says that collocation is words which are statistically much more likely to appear together than random chance suggests.Collocations are the association of two or more lexemes (roots) recognized in and defined by their occurrence in a specific range of grammatical construction, and it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish collocation from free combination, one possible criterion being that free combination are structured on the basis of grammar (Vebinc in Kurniawan, 2009:10). Nonnative speakers cannot combine words freely because words usually have their natural combination, if they combine the words freely, their collocation usage will be wrong. If nonnative speakers can use collocation accurately, their writing and speaking will be natural and accurate. This means that the ability in using collocation is an important thing for the nonnative speakers.Collocation is not an unusual linguistic phenomenon like idiom and phrase. According to McCarthy and O'Dell (2010: 6), idioms are group of words in a fixed order that have a meaning that cannot be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individually words. F...

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