Isti Kristiani, 0203516056 (2018) THE REALIZATION OF IDEATIONAL MEANING IN KHALIL GIBRAN’S WORK “THE PROPHET”. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Kristiani, Isti. 2018. The Realization of Ideational Meaning in Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”. Supervised by Dr. Djoko Sutopo, M.Si., and Prof. Dr. Warsono, DIP. TEFL, MA. Keywords: ideational meaning, transitivity, poetry This study investigated ideational meaning in Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”. The writer focused on process and circumstance. This study used the theory of ideational meaning by Halliday. The transitivity systems analysed the language of speakers and writers and it is the study of the structures of sentences, which were represented by process, participant, and circumstances. The objectives of this study were to explain the processes of transitivity realized in Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”, and to explain the circumstance of transitivity realized in it. This study was qualitative research. The source was the book entitled “The Prophet” and the objects of the research were 28 poems from the book. The units of analysis were the clauses or words in the lines of poetry. The data collections were analyzed into several stages, those were by classifying 28 poems into the lines of poetry, classifying the data into observation sheet based on types of processes and circumstances of transitivity, interpreting and inferring the whole data. The findings of the study showed that all processes of transitivity were realized in Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”, and material processes were dominant among processes. It indicated that the author presented the poetry process related to doing something physically, bodily, or materially. Regarding the circumstance of transitivity, the result showed only four circumstances were realized in Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”. The circumstance of location was dominant among circumstances. It meant circumstance of location construed the location of the unfolding of the process in space-time. The writer also concluded that circumstance of manner, contingency, role, matter, and angle were not realized in the Khalil Gibran’s work “The Prophet”. Based on the findings, the writer suggested that the teacher who wants to teach poetry use transitivity as the tool to get meaning of poetry. It can help the teacher in the teaching process to increase students understanding in making meaning. For the next researcher, this study can be a reference to analyse kinds of literature by using transitivity.

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