A Study of Onomatopoeia Used in Black Widow Comic

Kusniyah, Arika. 13.05.111.00144. A Study of Onomatopoeia in “Black widow” Comic. Thesis. English Study Program of Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, University of Trunojoyo Madura. Advisor: Iqbal Nurul Azhar, S.S., M.Hum.

This study aims to explain the types of onomatopoeic words which are found in Black Widow comics. It also aims to explain the variations of onomatopoeic words which are constructed in Black Widow comics.
In addition, to analyze the data, this study uses two theories proposed by Bredin (1996) and Ullman (cited in Eliza 2012) to analyze the types of onomatopoeia. To analyze the variation of onomatopoeia, the study uses the theory proposed by Kotter, Lange, and Meier (2005). New variation is found in this data. Moreover, this study is conducted by applying a descriptive qualitative research design since the data are in the form of words. The sources of data are Black Widow comics complied on 2014. The data of this study are comic scenes containing onomatopoeia, produced outside and inside the balloon in Black Widow comics. The data are collected by using content analysis method and analyzed by using interactive model analysis.
In the finding, the researcher found 61 data. The data analysis reveals the findings covering the formulated research questions. Firstly, the types of onomatopoeia are demonstrated by 49 data which belong to direct onomatopoeia, 4 data which belong to associative onomatopoeia, 2 data which belong to exemplary onomatopoeia, and 6 data which belong to secondary onomatopoeia. Secondly, the variations of onomatopoeia are demonstrated by 46 data belong to capital letter classifications; 5 data belong to compound variation of multiple vowel and capital letter; 3 data belong to compound variation of multiple consonant and capital letter; 4 data belong to compound variation of multiple vowel, multiple consonant, repetition of initial letter, and capital letter; 1 datum belongs to compound variations of multiple vowel, multiple consonant and capital letter; 1 datum belongs to compound variation of multiple vowel, repetition of initial letter and capital letter; 1 datum which has no variation of onomatopoeic words. The writer finds no exchanging letter as variation of onomatopoeic words from the data. The significant results are there are some data which the types of onomatopoeia cannot be classified as Bredin’s theory (1996), but can be classified as Ullman’s theory (cited in Eliza 2012); there are more than one onomatopoeia variations of Kotter, Lange, and Meier (2005) which are constructed in the comic and there is new variation found in the data. Therefore, onomatopoeic words which are found in the source of data have unexpected types and variations to maximize the reality of the situation so that the readers can get a real acoustic sensation of the whole actions.

Key words: Onomatopoeia, Black Widow Comic