An Analysis of Thematic progression on News and Editorial of The Jakarta Post

PUTRI, WENI OKTIA An Analysis of Thematic progression on News and Editorial of The Jakarta Post. JOURNAL An Analysis of Thematic progression on News and Editorial of The Jakarta Post.

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Abstract The purposes of this study are to find the thematic progression pattern on news and editorial of The Jakarta Post, and to find similarities and differences between them. The researcher uses theory from Paltridge (2006) as the framework. The thematic progression pattern items consist of three categories, namely, theme reiteration, zig-zag pattern, and multiple or split theme pattern. The data of this research was derived from The Jakarta Post in printed version. There were three news and three editorials. The reason why the researcher chosen The Jakarta Post as the source of data because of The Jakarta Post uses English language in presenting the newspaper. Also, The Jakarta Post is one of the most read by Indonesian regular. The researcher chosen three news which as headline, meanwhile, the researcher chosen three editorials randomly in each different topics or issues. By using descriptive qualitative in textual analysis approach, the result showed that from news and editorial did not find the all of the thematic progression pattern (theme reiteration and zig-zag pattern). The similarities of news and editorial regarding the use of thematic progression pattern that were the researcher found two patterns of thematic progression which are theme reiteration and zig-zag theme pattern, and many patterns mostly applied in clause (9, 19) and the writers’newspaper used personal pronoun in writing the news and editorials of The Jakarta Post. On the other hand, the difference of them is that news tend to use theme reiteration, meanwhile editorials tend to use zig-zag theme pattern.

Type: Article
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Depositing User: WENI OKTIA PUTRI
Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2018 01:26
Last Modified: 13 Jul 2018 01:26
URI: https://repository.unja.ac.id/id/eprint/4820

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