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social subject and its news stories evoke the individual personality. Hence, its readers reconstruct the orders of narration in news texts. The narrations in the
news impose events. If the readers then re-impose the chronological order in events in the discourse, they make it as a default strategy to influence them.
Afterward Duszak in Bell 1998: 100 states that by using readers ‘ knowledge of
news schemata, this is a powerful drive to retell chronological events. In conclusion, it is a corruption discourse which is mediated by TJP to twist reality
whereas the realities do not.
2.1.5 Systemic Functional Grammar SFG
When people speak or write, they produce text – a process of making
meaning in certain context. Between a writer and the reader i.e., language is the medium that makes sense for them to engage and interpret the text. The language
itself refers to the communication system lies behind the text and consists of sounds, words, and grammar used by people to understand each other.
In empirical approaches to language; analysis, description, and theory are grounded in data when observing a language as text. The analysis is the process of
noting patterns in the language system by means in the searching of the description which lies behind the text analysis. Moreover, text analysis is a very
strict way of testing and improving the analysis to be a process of generalizing data of text. Systemic Functional Grammar SFG is a theory of grammar which
focuses on how language means to convey people ‘s ideas in various ways and
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There are three metafunctions represented for making certain meanings: ideational field, interpersonal tenor and textual mode. The ideational
function is the basic metafunctions in SFG that concerns to the processes, participants, and circumstances found in the clause. Halliday 2004 defines the
function include the speaker or writer in how to conduct language in his experience of the real world and also in his cognition, reactions and
perceptions come from internal language. Through Transitivity Analysis, there are three classification elements in this metafunction: Participants, Processes,
and Circumstances. Being located in, and unfolding through time, the process is realized by a verb marked for
‗present‘ tense, contrasting with ‗past‘ and ‗future‘. Participants are involved in the process of meaning which one of them represents
the expression and the other meaning. These participants are the Token and Value in the relationship of signification. Circumstance is commonly marked as
an attendant, associated with the process. In the Transitivity Analysis, there are six processes: Material the process
of doing-and-happening, Mental the process of sensing, Relational the process of being and having, Verbal the process of saying, Behavioral the
process of behaving, and Existential process of existing. For example, table 2.1 below is a verbal process analysis of a clause in one complete sentence from
an article in The Jakarta Post TJP May, 8th 2015 about: ―Corruption
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Table 2.1 SFG Analysis of Verbal Process Corruption Eradication Commission
KPK investigators asked
Me Question
Participant Process
Participant Participant Sayer
‗past‘ Receiver
Verbiage Nominal Group
Verbal Group
Nom. G. Nom. G.
The interpersonal function is one of the metafunction that means to explore in how the speaker expresses his ideas to make a relationship with the
addressee. This function means to observe the interaction between them for establishing, changing and maintaining relations. The modality system is seen as
a theory to observe the interpersonal function. The speaker ‘s judgments are the
representation of modality system that aims at construing region of uncertainty that lies between yes and no Halliday, 2004. For example, in a dependent
clause ―that he could not find any irregularities in projects to provide housing for
haj pilgrims ‖ indicates the modality could is the degree of high-assurance and the
negative not is the opposed polarity. It is the proposition uttered by Suryadharma, the religion affair minister, that his authority or presence is null
and void. The textual function is the creation of a text which means to reveal the
semantic unit of language user presents in the text. Within such a coherent and cohesive way, the language user can show how the text in a marked theme can
give a certain emphasis. In the level of clause organizations, this function enables the clause to be packaged in ways which make it effective given its
purpose and its context Eggins, 2004. For example, in the sentence ―Corruption Eradication Commission KPK investigators asked me a question
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but I am unaware of the matter, ‖ Suryadharma told reporters. But indicates
cohesion mark as a conjunction that something being accused as corruptor needs a relation meaning in order to explain the interpretation of the text. This
conjunction expands to express the contrastive or oppositional relationship between the first clause Corruption Eradication Commission KPK investigators
asked me a question and the second clause I am unaware of the matter. It concludes that this quoted statement has explicit meaning and give effect to the
reader that the verbal process Suryadharma told reporters is the valid argument to provoke being agreed that Suryadharma is the accused of a corruption scandal.
The limitations of applying SFG in this critical discourse analysis appear upon the text and productive practices. The text which has been interpreted by
the researcher must be linked with reference in case of the interpretative practices of audiences readers. The audience reception is the discursive practice
that must be linked with sociocultural practice to produce a critique by using intertextual analysis
– the constitution of texts in terms of discourses and genres. In other words, the linguistic analysis of media texts needs other texts to transform
and embed.
2.1.6 Corruption Eradication Commission KPK
Corruption is a dishonest, illegal behavior done by people in powerful authority to enrich themselves. It refers to poor governance and indicates as one
of the most damaging consequence. Huntington in Salama 2014: 150 defines ―Corruption is a behavior of public officials which deviates from accepted norms
in order to serve private end s‖. It is like a shadow which is always following
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