Annisa Widyawati Fathonah , 2211412051 (2016) Perceiving Explanations from the Nonsense: An Analysis of Attributions in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is conducted to investigate Alice’s comprehension of explanation perceiving through the attributions she gives to the circumstance in Wonderland. The topic of this study is Perceiving Explanations from the Nonsense; an Analysis of Attributions as Represented in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The objectives of this study are three, which are 1) to explain how the perceiving of explanations from the nonsense through attributions as represented in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2) to identify to what extent Alice attributes the nonsense as represented in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and 3) to explain how the attributions given by Alice construct the most relevant explanations as reflected in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the object of the study. The research instrument uses observation sheets, while the data collection is based on library research. The discussion was conducted by analyzing Alice’s attributions according to her social and psychological processes based on the social-psychology in literature, focusing on the attribution theory as proposed by Heider (1958) and Malle (2003). This study results in several findings as follows: 1) through her attributions, Alice relates the nonsense in Wonderland with the sense in her original world in order to retrieve an understanding. All the more, there are two ultimate reasons for Alice to attribute: to call into a respond and to maintain her identity including goals. 2) Alice unconsciously divides her attributions into two extensions directed to the creatures as personal figure and the environment as impersonal figure. 3) Alice’s process of attributing includes a) frame-working through behavior, which covers reasonable and causal intentions, and b) attributing under psychological processes, which covers the sub-steps of behavior evaluation, pragmatic goals identification, and information resources demand.

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