ANALYSIS OF COMIC STRIP

(MORPHOLOGY)

SPEECH BUBBLES (SEMANTICS ANALYSIS)

Num 1

Sentences I know this is your first chance to meet your new boss!

Semantic ideas Polysemy - Word that has than one more meaning

Words - Boss

Explanation - There were two definitions of boss. - The first one refer to person whose job is to give orders to others at work. - The second one means to give orders especially in an annoying way - In this story, the word boss refer to the explanation mentioned earlier. - The word chance got three meanings: Possibility(noun) An opportunity To risk - In this case, the word chance here refer to an opportunity to meet their new boss.

- Chance

- New

- The word new got three meanings: An adjective; that has recently made and discovered. Different or changed from what was before That you have not seen and learnt before

- The word new in this speech bubble refer to the second meaning which is Mr Hagar the horrible who was the new boss.

- Exclamation mark Id like to welcome all you new crew members. Polysemous - Word that has than one more meaning Crew

- Emphasize about the feelings with using of exclamation mark (!). - There are two different meanings of the word crew: Noun( all the people who work on a ship) A group of people who work together. - In this case, the word crew in the sentence refer to a group of new crew members who were welcomed by Mr Hagar. - In this context, there are hyponymy. Boss is a kind of people, so does the word men.

I am not a heartless boss who drives his men relentlessly!

Hyponymy A hyponymy is subordinate, specificterm whose referent is included in the referent of a superordinate term.

boss and men People boss men

People is a superordinate while boss and men are hyponyms. - There are two different meanings of drives Simple present tense (drive + s)

Polysemous - Word that has drives

than one more meaning

To control or operate a car, bus To cause somebody to be in a particular state or to do something. - In the sentences, the word drives means the boss was not a cruel person who likes to cause his men to work all day long. Relentlessly - It is an adverb. Relentless + ly - The word relentless means not stopping or changing. From the sentence, Mr Hagar said that he would not letting his men to work all day long. - The sentence emphasized about the feeling of Mr Hagar which promised to the crew members that he was not a person who did not keep his workers welfare. Youll Wont Simple future tense Youll = you will Simple past tense Wont = would not

Associative/ connotative

And contrary to Affective meaning - The speaker you wont be describe an expected to work for event while giving an just bread and emotional water. reaction to it. what youll hear,

Abbreviation - Short form of words

Figurative expressions idioms Convey the indrect meaning

Bread and water

- In this sentence context, bread and water means the most minimal meal possible; - In this story, the boss

which may be the opposite of their literal meanings. 5 Youll be provided with plenty of butter to put on your bread! Idioms Plenty of butter

promised them that he will give them more than bread and water.

In this sentence case, the phrase plenty of butter means the boss only add on butter for their meal. He break his promise. It was nothing at all actually. There are two different meanings of these words: To dress yourself in something To cover an area of your skin with something - In this speech bubbles, the second meaning suits best for the sentence. From the sentence, it means that their boss only add on butter for their meal.

Verb

Put on

REFLECTION
Aizatul Shairah Binti Mat Nasir 5 Mted2
It was so relieved when finally I did succeed in finishing this assignment. I have been working hard all day long thinking about all the tasks given to us. So far, I thought that this assignment is one of the most hardest tasks I have ever done. Indeed, it was such a hard experience for me to analyze the graphic organizers especially. Moreover, I am quite worried thinking about my overall answers because I did not know whether they were right or wrong. I just did it with my own thought, searching information from internet, relevant books and by exchanging opinion with my friends. Designing graphic organizers were the hardest part. Truly speaking, the informations and articles relating semantics field was not enough by finding them in the internet. I could not find much the most relevant articles related to semantics. Luckily, I managed to borrow B.e.d Teyl student notes. But at the same time, it was not as easy as ABC to pick out the main points needed. Sometimes, I got headache when it comes to part where I had to select the most relevant points because the explanation given was quite confusing. To my pleasure, i am very thankful that my friend did borrowing Linguistics reference book which helped me a lot in designing proper graphic organizer. Not only that, I found that task two was also quite challenging. Analyzing comic strips was not something that I am good at. I had to read the story for so many times in order to get what does it really means. Initially, I misunderstood the meaning behind the story because it was quite confusing. Later, after having a few discussions with my group members, I realized that it was not so hard as i thought before. Then, I tried my best to analyze the comic strips eventhough I did not sure whether they were right or wrong as we did not get explanation regarding this task much earlier. No matter what, I had to struggle myself and tried to accomplish this task as fast as I can. There were no excuses for me to escape from doing this challenging tasks. Now, come the last part which was quite easy and interesting whereby we had to create a narrative story based on the speech bubbles. I noticed that certain words were

higher vocabulary whereby I had to refer to dictionary. At last, we did came up with an interesting story of Mr Hagar The Horrible. We managed to produce our own story using our own creativity. Here, I would like to thank to all of my group members because they had given much cooperation while finishing this tasks. Not to forget, I would like to express gratitude to my lecturer, Madam Lee Sui Sum for supporting, helping and contributing energy and time for assisting us to complete the tasks. Last but not least, I hope that our assignment will be accepted as we had already tried the best as we can.