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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ENGLISH AND ARABIC PRONOUN IN WARDUN MAGAZINE
ABSTRACT
Goro?, Rodliyatul, 2015 : A Comparative Study on English and Arabic Pronoun in WARDUN MAGAZINE
Advisor : Diyah Kurniawati, M.Pd.
Key word : Comparative Study, Pronoun, English, Arabic
The aim of this research is to describe the kinds of Arabic and English pronoun found in WARDUN magazine and the similarities and differences both English and Arabic pronoun.
In Addition, this research tends to be descriptive qualitative research. The writer uses library research in collecting the data. Most of them are taken from linguistics and grammar books of both English and Arabic which concern with the discussion of the study, especially the analysis of English and Arabic pronoun in WARDUN. The writer uses the non- statistic data analysis to analyze the data. The writer discusses pronoun both in English and Arabic in WARDUN, then makes lists the similarities and the differences both of them.
After analyzing the data, the writer finds that there are some kinds of English and Arabic pronoun found in WARDUN. There are 8 kinds of English pronoun and also 8 in Arabic. The similarities both English and Arabic pronouns are: First, both English and Arabic personal pronouns are used to replace the first, second and third person. Second, first person singular and plural in both the languages, English and Arabic, show identical meaning. Third, in both languages, singular reflective noun ?self? in English and ???in Arabic show more emphatic. Fourth, both the attached pronouns which are suffixed to noun in Arabic and possessive pronoun show possession. The differences both of them are: first, English personal pronoun is only one set while Arabic has two set; separated and attached ones. Second, English only has 7 pronouns, Arabic has 12 pronouns. Third, English demonstrative pronoun has only two-dimensional points to denote, Arabic has three. Fourth, English has many indefinite pronouns to refer unspecified persons, things, or groups, it is contrasted with Arabic that has only one indefinite pronoun that used in all case, and it is ????. Fifth, In Arabic, possessive pronoun is the same set with the personal pronoun express genitive. In English, possessive pronoun and the pronoun which expresses genitive are different.
At last, the writer suggests and has big expectation to the next researchers to be able to explore the kinds of pronouns and the similarities and the differences applied by the students. She also suggests them to use magazine, journal or the other books in supporting the study.
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