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In summary, perezhilton.com is a gossip column in the internet which exposes about Hollywood celebrities and famous public figure around the world.
The news is presented following the style of the writer, but it is composed mildly. The text will be positive if the writer likes the artists, on the contrary, it will be
negative if the writer detests the artists. The writer also takes some citations to support the facts.
b. How the appraising items applied in the texts
The attitudes are applied strongly in the analytical exposition text. In addition, those attitudes make the texts more subjective. The analysis of
graduation of the attitude is completed to find out how strong the attitude is. Graduation which does not embrace attitude is not analyzed in this research. The
table below illustrates the result of the whole graduation analysis: Table 4.9.4 Graduation in the texts
Text Graduation
Scaling Form
Option
Force Focus up
down inf
iso Meta-
phor Inten-
sifier Att.
Lexis Swear-
ing
Text 1 17
- 14
3 8
9 4
7 6
- Text 2
6 -
5 1
2 4
- 4
2 -
Text 3 15
2 12
5 6
9 2
6 7
- Text 4
18 1
16 3
9 9
2 6
10 -
Text 5 16
- 9
7 4
12 1
9 6
- Text 6
11 1
12 -
7 4
1 2
8 -
Text 7 24
3 20
7 9
15 5
10 7
2 Text 8
19 1
15 5
5 14
5 9
1 4
Number
126 8
103 31
50 76
20 53
47 6
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Percentage 94.03 5.97 76.87 23.3 39.69 60.31 15.87 42.06 37.31 4.76
To sum up, based on the table above, the graduation of the text are about 91.03 is force and 5.97 is focus. The up-scaled attitudes are 76.87 and the
down-scaled is 23.3. The form of the attitudes applied is 39.69 infusion and
60.31 isolating. The options of graduation are 15.87 metaphor, 42.06 intensifier
, 37.31 attitudinal lexis, and 4.76 swearing. The result of the graduation analysis explains that the writer prefers to
apply amplifying force to soften or sharpen focus. He mostly applies intensifier and attitudinal lexis. There are 53 items of intensifier attitude and 47 items
attitudinal lexis . He even also employs swearing which is seldom used in news
text. The swearing which means negative here is mostly applied in the text of Chris Brown that previously has been stated that the artists is detested by the
writer, Perez Hilton. Besides, he employs metaphor and some of them are modality
as well. 76.87 up-scaled attitude shows that the writer applies vehement
expressions, to praise the artists or to mock them by criticizing scathingly. T
he attitudes are applied in gossip news texts. The term ―gossip news‖ is used here because on the website perezhilton.com the entire texts are called as
gossip and the texts talk about celebrities and famous people, although the texts contain fact as well. However, by reading and comprehending throughout the
texts, then it is found that the genre of all of those texts is Exposition: Analytical. It is because the texts have the characteristics of analytical exposition.
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According to Linda Gerot and Peter Wignell 1994, the social function of exposition analytical is to persuade the reader or listener that something is the
case. The generic structure are; thesis announcement of issue concern, arguments
reason for concern, leading to reiteration, and reiteration restate writer’s position.
All texts that have been analyzed here, as has written in the previous sub- chapter, contain persuasions that some certain celebrities are good but some others
are bad. The writer invites the reader to be in compliance with him to support or to challenge some public figures who is exposed in his gossip news texts. In
addition, the texts consist of thesis, arguments, and reiteration as well. After finding the genre, the researcher intends to analyze the prosody of
the text to discover the voice of the writer inside the texts. This is to find how the attitudes applied as well.
The prosody in Perez Hilton’s texts is more subjective. It is because there are so many evaluations in his texts, not only at the end part of the text, but
elsewhere in the texts. This means the writer gives his own emotional feelings on his texts, even, there are some clauses containing more than one attitude.
Moreover, the engagement becomes another proof of the prosody. Most of the engagements of the texts are monogloss. This means most of the source of the
attitudes comes from the writer. The writer does not only deliver news or fact about a celebrity, but he also gives comment and opinion towards the fact. In
addition, the attitudes in the texts exposing Katy Perry and Leona Lewis are mostly positive, but in the texts exposing Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown are truly
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negative . This means, the negativity or positivity of the applied attitudes depend
on the subjectivity of the writer. Therefore, the researcher summarizes that the writer tends to be subjective.
The texts are applied positively for Katy Perry and Leona Lewis, and negatively
for Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown. In summary, the appraising items are applied strongly. The choices of
words used in the texts are sometimes praiseful or scathing. Accordingly, the appraising items are applied subjectively based on the writer’s own idea. It means
that the voice of the texts becomes more subjective. Those appraising items are applied in Analytical Exposition genre. This
kind of genre is mostly applied in perezhilton.com because it is appropriate with Perez Hilton’s uniqueness in writing that always appraises issues from only one
point of view, his own point of view.
c. The reason of applying the appraising items in the texts including the
