Objective of the Study

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1.5 Significance of the Study

The researcher hopes this research can give contribution to: 1. The students of English Department. The researcher hopes that the result of this study is valuable to students who are interested in learning and understanding the transitivity analysis and critical discourse analysis on newspapers’ articles and editorials. 2. The people who read this research. The researcher hopes that the readers are facilitated in understanding transitivity and critical discourse analysis as well as being given additional knowledge of social and political point of view. 3. The researchers who are majoring in Linguistics. The researcher hopes that the next researchers know more about transitivity, discourse, power and ideology so that in the future more new research using frameworks in systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis can be conducted. 4. The newspapers’ editorial staff. The researcher hopes that the editorial staff will be able to keep writing editorials based on their own newspapers’ ideology and political stance as well as maintaining newspapers’ own political identities.

1.6 Thesis Organization

In order to present the thesis systematically and to make it easy for the readers to understand the content, this research is presented in five chapters with the following organization. 8 Chapter one is introduction. This chapter discusses the general background of the study, statement of the problem, scope of the study, objective of the study, significance, and thesis organization. Chapter two is review of related literature. This chapter explains about the theories which are used to analyze the data. The theories are about language, text, systemic functional linguistics, transitivity, non-relational processes and relational processes, discourse, critical discourse analysis, power and ideology, Faircloughs framework for critical discourse analysis, role of media, The New York Times, The Washington Times, and immigration reform. Chapter three is research method. This chapter involves research design, unit of analysis, source of data, method of data collection, and method of data analysis. Chapter four is data analysis. This chapter presents the findings in transitivity analysis and the discussion of findings regarding the newspaper ideology of The New York Times and The Washington Times. Chapter five is conclusion. This chapter consists of conclusion and suggestion of the study after conducting the analysis.