AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEXTUAL MEANING ON SPOKEN TEXT IN ONLINE GAME ENTITLED “DOTA2” BASED ON PATEDA’S THEORY

The purpose of this research is to identify and to describe the types of the
contextual meaning used in spoken text of online game entitled DotA2. The
design of this research was descriptive comparative method. The corpus of this
study was videos of Dota 2 gameplay – dazzle and video of Dota 2 Gameplay –
Crystal Maiden taken from Youtube at “tr3oGames’s channel”. The instrument
used in this research was check-list. The data were collected by using
documentation method. To analyze the data, the qualitative method, including
descriptive analysis and statistical, was applied. The results of this research show
that the most dominant type of context used in Spoken text of Dota2 gameplay
videos was object Context (44.85%), while the lowest frequency type of context
used in Spoken text of Dota2 gameplay videos was context of situation (4.94%).
In addition, there are some common types of context used in spoken text of Dota 2
gameplay videos were context of purpose (16,5%), mood context of speaker or
listener (14,40%) and context of place (19,75%). In other hand, the rest types of
context that were context of organ (0%), formal or informal context in
conversation (0%), context of time (0%), context of completeness in speak or hear
from speaker or listener (0%), linguistic context (0%), and context of language
(0%) are not found in this research.
Key words: Dota2 gameplay video, contextual meaning, Pateda’s Theory