A Study of Zero Anaphora Used in Rick Riordian's The Lightning Thief Novel

Abstract: This study focuses on zero anaphora that are used in Rick
Riordian’s The Lightning Thief Novel. This study aims to explain the
types and the patterns of zero anaphora which are taken from The
Lightning Thief Novel written by Rick Riordian. This study is conducted
by applying a qualitative research design since the data are in the form of
words. The data of this study are the sentences contain zero anaphora
which are used in The Lightning Thief Novel written by Rick Riordian.
The data are collected by using content analysis method. In analyzing the
data, the writer uses interactive data analysis. This study uses two
theories which are proposed by Li and Thompson (1981) and Tao (2001)
to analyze the data.The data analysis reveals 24 data in the findings
which cover the research questions. Firstly, the types of zero anaphora
mostly used in The Lightning Thief Novel is intersentential case which
has 19 data. The second is intrasentential which gets 5 data. The writer
also finds the patterns of zero anaphora. Those are 3 data for the switch-
reference pattern, 8 data for the embedded clause condition, 13 data for
the direct object condition, no data for the return-pop.
Keywords: Zero Anaphora, Types of Zero Anaphora, Patterns of
Zero Anaphora, The Lightning Thief.