Analysis of Ambiguity in International News Headlines

Understanding ambiguity is one thing that will be useful. Ambiguity is not the same as 'vagueness'. Vagueness means that things have no interpretation, while ambiguity has other reasonable interpretations. By understanding ambiguity, you can learn to think about a problem from a new perspective and explain that thought to others. This study contains the ambiguity found in the headline of news on the British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC news television service site. This study aims to find meaning ambiguity and determine the type of ambiguity of meaning contained in news headlines, including structural ambiguity or lexical ambiguity. The method used in this research is qualitative. The sample in this study is 10 ambiguous headlines that contain ambiguity, it is either structural/grammatical ambiguity and lexical ambiguity. The researchers conclude there are still news headlines that might confuse the readers because they can have two interpretations. So, this study displays the explanation of how and why there can be 2 interpretations in the news headlines. And the two interpretations can be included in structural ambiguity or lexical ambiguity.