THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN BUSINESS LETTERS WRITTEN BY AIESEC

TUNTASARI, HUMANIS ILMIA (2014) THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN BUSINESS LETTERS WRITTEN BY AIESEC. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

The title of this thesis is “Thematic Progression in Business Letters Written By AIESEC”. Based on the statement of the problem, the objectives of the study are to identify the theme and rheme in the letters and to describe thematic progression pattern in the letters. The researcher took some business letters of The Jakarta Post Newspaper as the source of data. The data were analyzed by using descriptive research design. The steps to analyze the data in this study are: identifying every clause in the letters, identifying the Theme and Rheme of every clause of the letters, describing the thematic development of the letters, figuring the Thematic Progression pattern of the letters, interpreting the data, and drawing the conclusion. As the result, there are 131 clauses found in 6 letters and there are three types of Thematic Progression pattern found in 119 clauses in the letters. Those are constant Patterns, zig–zag pattern, and multiple patterns. Constant pattern dominates among the other patterns, that is 85 (64.88%). Then, it is followed by 33 (25.19%) of zig-zag pattern and 2 (1.53%) of multiple patterns. It was found that the highest frequency of Thematic Progression patterns is constant pattern. In 6 letters above, new themes were still found in the letters that are not expected in the letters. An unexpected theme makes paragraph in the letters less coherent, therefore this kind of development should be avoided. From 10 letters, there are 3 letters whose paragraphs are less coherent just under five unexpected themes and 3 letters whose paragraphs are coherent.

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