A Genre Analysis of News Item Texts in The Jakarta Post and New York Times

VALERIA, SEPVENTUS GISELA (2015) A Genre Analysis of News Item Texts in The Jakarta Post and New York Times. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

Valeria Gisela Sepventus Uhing. 2015. A Genre Analysis of News Item Texts in The Jakarta Post and New York Times. English Study Program, Dian Nuswantoro University. Advisor: Sunardi, S.S.,M.Pd. The title of this thesis is A Genre Analysis of News Item Texts in The Jakarta Post and New York Times. It is has four objectives. They are to describe the social functions, to describe the schematic structures, to describe the lexico-grammatical features, and to analyze the differences and similarities of the News Item texts in The Jakarta Post and New York Times. The data are analyzed based on Gerot and Wignell’s theory about type of genres in the Making Sense of Functional Grammar (1994) and Systemic Functional Li¬nguistics Analysis, especially context of culture in text by Suzanne Eggins (2004). Two articles were selected as the data, one from The Jakarta Post (TJP) and the other one is from New York Times (NYT). The data were analyzed by using descriptive method after segmenting it into clauses and classifying them using systemic functional linguistic (SFL) metafunctions analysis. From the analysis, it is found that the social function of the texts is different. The schematic structures of news item text are Newsworthy ^ [Background ^ Sources]. The similarity of the texts is the use of declarative mood type in the two texts is dominant, but there is only one interrogative mood type found in TJP. The process types used in the texts are Material, Behavioral, Mental, Verbal, Relational and Existential. Relational processes are mostly used in NYT but Material processes are mostly used in TJP. The theme types used in both texts are Textual, Ideational, and Interpersonal. The used of Ideational processes are dominant in both texts, there is only one Interpersonal theme found in TJP.

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