Register Analysis Of Football News On The Daily Mail And The Telegraph Online Newspaper (A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach)

This research was conducted to explain about the register analysis of sport news  texts  on  two  online newspapers, the telegraph  and  the daily mail.  The objectives of this research are to discover ideational, interpersonal, and textual meaning realized in the Football transfer news by the telegraph and the daily mail online newspaper and to examine the pattern and style related to profit of both texts by comparing them through their similarities and differences.

This   research   used   descriptive   qualitative   method   with   case   study methodology. It uses purposive sampling deal with the primary and secondary data. The primary data  came from  the news  texts.  It  consists  of relationship between participants in the texts and the detail information of the news that is analyzed using the register analysis.   In addition, the secondary data was taken from other media related to the readership of the media.
    
The result of the data analysis dealing with the transitivity is the pattern of this news text has more material process and relational process than other process. The status, affection, and contact in this research shows that there is an equal status between the reader and writer. In addition, the participants show a positive affection. Moreover, each media has their own strategies to increase the number of readership. Therefore, daily mail and telegraph has different strategies. The daily mail number of readership is bigger in the printed version. On the other hand, telegraph rules the online version.

This research is expected to contribute in the development of SFL related to the register analysis of news sport text. It can be used as the reference to the further research. This research is expected to help other English Department students of linguistics mainstream as a reference to conduct the similar research.