ABSTRAK
Silalahi, Pininta Veronika. 2019. Signifying the Signs in the Wedding Ceremony
of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Disertasi. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra. Program Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Promotor: Drs. Slamet Setiawan, M.A., Ph.D dan Ko-promotor Dra. Pratiwi Retnaningdyah, M.Hum., M.A., Ph.D.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguraikan bagaimana tanda-tanda pernikahan bangsawan Pangeran William dan Catherine Middleton membentuk arti dalam video tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menjelaskan: (1) bagaimana tanda-tanda ikonik membentuk makna; (2) bagaimana tanda-tanda indeksikal membentuk makna; (3) bagaimana tanda-tanda simbolik menciptakan makna; (4) bagaimana tradisi perkawinan bangsawan direpresentasikan dalam video; (5) bagaimana kebangsawanan ditunjukkan melalui tanda-tanda.
Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan deskriptif kualitatif. Model semiotika yang digunakan dalam analisis adalah kerangka Charles Sanders Peirce dalam Fiske (1990). Semiotik ala Peirce dibentuk dari hubungan triadik makna: representamen, objek dan interpretan. Data penelitian ini adalah narasi yang menjelaskan peristiwa demi peristiwa yang dipertunjukkan lewat gambar bergerak. Sumber data adalah video dengan narasi yang secara resmi diproduksi BBC dengan ijin dari Ratu Elizabeth II. Analisis tanda-tanda dikelompokkan menjadi tiga unuk memnjawab pertanyaan satu, dua, dan tiga: (1) tanda ikonik dan indeksikal; (2) tanda ikonik, indeksikal, dan simbolik.
Temuan penelitian ini menunjukkan ada lima tanda yang ditemukan yang digolongkan kepada (tanda ikon dan indeks: kerajaan Inggris, kekuasaan, milik, mode, dan tempat). Ada empat bentuk tanda yang digolongkan pada tanda ikonik, indeksikal dan simbolik (ikon, indeks dan simbol pertahanan, bangsa, cinta dan , unity). Tanda-tanda indeks meliputi: penyambutan, pernikahan, antusiasme, identitas, kebangsawanan, kegembiraan, lingkungan hidup, penghormatan, tugas, keingintahuan, penampilan, pilihan, keilahian, tradisi.
Bisa disimpulkan bahwa penelitian ini menemukan tanda-tanda dalam bentuk ikon, indeks dan simbol, tetapi didominasi tanda indeks. Temuan juga menunjukkanbahwa representamen yang sama mengacu ke objek yang berbeda yang tentu saja menghasilkan interpretant yang berbeda. Ikon yang ditemukan bukan merupakan tiruan asli bendanya tetapi merupakan analogi diantara hubungan dari suatu bagian.
Kata-kata Kunci: semiotika, tanda-tanda, pernikahan, ikonik, indeksikal, dan simbolik
MEMAKNAI TANDA-TANDA DALAM UPACARA PERKAWINAN PANGERAN WILLIAM DAN CATHERINE MIDDLETON
Memaknai Tanda-tanda Dalam Upacara Perkawinan Pangeran William dan Catherine Middleton
Signifying the signs in the Wedding Ceremony of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
SIGNIFYING THE SIGNS IN THE WEDDING CEREMONY OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND CATHERINE MIDDLETON
ABSTRACT
of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Dissertation. Department of English Education and Literature. Post Graduate Program Surabaya State University. Promoter: Drs. Slamet Setiawan, M.A.,Ph.D, Co-promoter: Dra. Pratiwi Retnaningdyah, M.Hum., M.A., Ph.D.
This study is aimed at describing how royal wedding signs of Prince William and Catherine Middleton make meaning in the narration of video. The objectives of this study are to decribe: (1) how iconic signs make meaning, (2) how indexical signs make meaning, (3) how symbolic signs create meaning; (4) how royal marriage tradition is represented in the wedding video; (5) how nobility is represented through the signs.
The study employed a qualitative research design. The semiotic model used in this analysis is Charles Sanders Peirce’s framework in Fiske (1990). Peircean semiotics is made up of a triadic relation of signification which include the representamen, the object, and the interpretant. Data were narrations telling the moving images presented in sequence of events uttered by the video reporter. The source of data is the wedding video with narration which is officially produced by BBC under the permission of Queen Elizabeth II. The analysis of signs is classified into three parts: (1) iconic and indexical signs; (2) iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs; and (3) indexical signs.
The finding revealed several findings. There were five signs belonged to iconic and indexical signs (icon and index of the United kingdom, power, property, fashion, and place). Four signs were included to iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs of (icon, index, and symbol of defense, nation, love, and unity). The indexical signs were indices of welcoming, wedding, enthusiasm, identity and nobility, joy, environment, esteem, duty, curiousity, performance, preference, divinity, and tradition.
In conclusion, the findings of this research displayed that iconic, indexial, and symbolic sounds occurs in the wedding ceremony, which were dominated by the indexical signs. It was found that the same representamens denote to different signs and result with different interpretants. The icons found out were not the resemblance but an analogy between the relations of the parts of each of the object.
Key Words: semiotics, wedding, iconic, indexical and symbolic signs