3. For Future Researchers:
This research discusses about Biographical writings. For the future researchers who are interested in discussing the same topic can use the
information or the references that have provided by the researcher.
1.6 The Definition of Terms
There are several key words which are better to be understood to deal with the research of this thesis. Here are the definitions of those that considered as the
important terms in this research: 1.
Biographical Works In his book entitled
Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British AutoBiography, Regard states that biographical
works are writings that portray a person’s life with the use of usually non-fiction information.
However, fiction can also be used to portray a persons life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse
media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at
times, participation of a subject or a subjects heirs. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a
subject or a subjects heirs. 2.
Auto-biographical Works PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
An autobiography is written by the person himself or herself, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator. Regard, 2003
3. Genre
A genre, in this view, is defined as a category assigned on the basis of external criteria such as intended audience, purpose, and activity type, that is,
it refers to a conventional, culturally recognized grouping of texts based on properties other than lexical or grammatical co-occurrence features, which
are, instead, the internal linguistic criteria forming the basis of text type categories. Biber 1988 has this to say about external. Genre categories are
determined on the basis of external criteria relating to the speakers purpose and topic; they are assigned on the basis of use rather than on the basis of
form. In this research, the text type category is related to biographical texts and its idea organization.
4. Register
The basic working assumption implicit in sociolinguistic study of register variation is A communication situation that recurs regularly in a society in
terms of participants, setting, communicative functions, and so forth will tend over time to develop identifying markers of language structure and
language use, different from the language of other communication situations. In an interim report on a project investigating eleven sublanguages of written
English and French, Kittredge 1982 discusses four sample registers: the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
language of aviation hydraulics, cookbook recipes, regional weather forecasts, and stock market reports. Each shows unique features of lexicon,
lexical collocations, sentence structures, and inter-sentential linking devices. Communicative situation in this research deals with the information needed to
make the writing. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
