An Appraisal Analysis of Two Texts Exposing the Controversy of Balibo Five Film Taken From www.thejakartapost.com (A Study Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics)

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Fitria Nur Fadhila - C0306003 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

This research explores the appraisal system in two texts exposing the controversy of Balibo Film taken from www.thejakartapost.com. The two texts entitled “Remembering the 1975 Balibo Incident: An Opportunity to Correct Past Wrong?” and “By the way: A ban that boomerangs back on us”, are analyzed using Appraisal Theory. Appraisal theory concerns with attitude, graduation, and engagement. The objectives of this thesis are to determine the attitudes discovered in the texts, to find out the effects of the attitudes toward the texts, and to know the reason why the attitudes are used in the texts. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The technique of taking sample used in this research is purposive sampling. There are two data in this research, the primary data which consist of detailed and depth linguistic phenomena about the types of attitudes: evaluating things (appreciation), people?s characters (judgement), and their feeling (affect); and the secondary data which consist of the information about the 1975 Balibo incident and the text?s writer. The results show that the three kinds of attitudes (affect, jugdment, and appreciation) are applied in the texts, but mostly is appreciation. The engagement is mostly monogloss, and the moslty graduation is focus. The texts are applied in Hortatory and Analytical Exposition genre, and the texts are applied subjectively based on the writer?s opinion. The appraising items are applied in the texts because of the ideologies that the text writer wants to convey. The ideologies are left antagonist for text 1 and right antagonist for text 2. The ideology shows the writer?s style in writing news text that he supports or challenges the issue.