Rizka Ayu Prihandani , 2211411025 (2016) THE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA CONFLICT REPRESENTED BY THE WRITERS OF THE JAKARTA POST AND THE NEW YORK TIMES. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Interpreting how writers represent experience in texts can be done by exploring the sequences of ideational meanings or sequences of activities involving people and things. This study was conducted to know how the cease-fire in Gaza conflict is represented by the writers of The Jakarta Post and The New York Times in their articles. In this study, the discussion was limited by finding out the answer of these two questions: how is the cease-fire in Gaza conflict represented by the writers of The Jakarta Post in the article? and how is the cease-fire in Gaza conflict represented by the writers of The New York Times? This study is a discourse analysis. The data of this study were in the form of clauses of newspaper articles. The data were analyzed using the following steps: reading the articles, identifying the sequences of phases of the articles, dividing the sequences into figures, describing the elements of figure: process, participant, and circumstance, and describing realization of those elements in wordings. The result shows that the writers from The Jakarta Post and The New York Times already fulfil the generic stages of a news item in writing their article. They start with Newsworthy Event, followed it with Background Event, and end with Sources. In the Background Event, the writers of both newspapers wrote three phases: cease-fire phase, Egyptian-mediated talks phase, and campaign/combat phase. The writers of The Jakarta Post devide the cease-fire phase into three parts: announcement, description, and assurance. The Egyptian-mediated talks phase is divided into three parts: under the truce, delegation, and casualties. The campaign phase is divided into two parts: the intensity and the strike. Meanwhile, The writers of The New York Times divide the cease-fire phase into announcement, American officials, and agreement parts. The Egyptian-mediated talks phases is divided into delegation, choreography, and substance parts. The combat phase is divided into intensity and strike parts. The figure of doing (material process) with actor and goal as the main participants dominate in both articles. From the circumstances analysis, the writers of The Jakarta Post employ 58 circumstances with nine different kinds of circumstances, while the writers of The New York Times employ 77 crcumstances with seven different kinds of circumstances. Thus, the English language readers are suggested to enhance their ability in analyzing texts through discourse analysis and functional grammar. In addition, the next researchers and discourse analysts are hoped to be able to demonstrate how lexicogrammar analysis is applied to uncover newspaper articles’ ideational meanings.

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