Lexical and structural ambiguity found in Zootopia movie

This research entitled “Lexical and Structural Ambiguity Found in Zootopia Movie” reveals 3 problems, what is the lexical ambiguity found in Zootopia movie, what is the structural ambiguity found in Zootopia movie, and what are the most dominant types of ambiguity which appeared in Zootopia movie. The aims of this research are to describe the types of lexical ambiguity that used by Zootopia characters, to analyze the structural ambiguity that used by Zootopia characters and to explain the most dominant types of ambiguity in Zootopia movie. The writer uses Stephen Ullmann theory in analyzing the types of lexical and structural ambiguity. Qualitative analysis and descriptive research designs are selected to conduct this research. The writer herself becomes the only instrument – human instrument. Reading and selecting the entire movie script of Zootopia become the steps of data collection. Then, the procedures of data analysis contain identifying, classifying and elaborating the data. Drawing the conclusion is also the last step required. The result of this research shows that the most dominant types of ambiguity in this research is lexical ambiguity which produced for 41 times or 86% in out of 47 total number of data. Meanwhile structural ambiguity only produced 6 times or 14% in out of 47 data.