An analysis of lexical relation in brother grimm's Hansel and Gretel

This study aims to analyze lexical relations in the short story of Hansel and Gretel. There are two problems that must be answered in this research: (1) What are the types of lexical relation found in Hansel and Gretel short story. (2) Which parts of speech are most frequently found of the words coupled with their lexical relations in Hansel and Gretel short story. The researcher identified the types of lexical relations and categorized those words into part of speech. The researcher used descriptive qualitative methods and theories from Saeed (1997) to conduct this research. This study used a qualitative method because of the data structure in the form of words contained in the short story entitled "Hansel and Gretel" by Brother Grimm. The techniques of collecting data in this research are choose words, gave code, and color each word that contain the types of lexical relation in Hansel and Gretel's short stories. Then, identified the words and explained the meaning of each type of lexical relation. After collecting data, the researcher categorized each word and explained the meaning of each type of lexical relation. The last explained the conclusions. The researcher found all types of lexical relation in Hansel and Gretel's short story: homonymy, polysemy, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, member-collection, and portion-mass. This study also found that the most common types of lexical parts of speech found in Hansel and Gretel’s short story was noun. The researcher suggest to further researchers to choose object from magazines, novels, songs that are more popular and use detailed theories.