Source of Data Comparison Of Taxis And Logical Semantic Systems In Indonesian And Malaysian Newspapers About Airasia Qz8501 Accident

31 b AirAsia tail section located, blackbox still missing Jong, 2015, The Jakarta Post, January 8, 2015. The case of AirAsia accident killing all the passengers on December 28 brought many questions and speculations on how the accident happened and what made the airplane crashed. People tried to search facts and created their own perspectives. This is why it is important to see the decision of media in presenting their report. It is whether they tend to expand the information they got or project people’s opinion on their works in order to serve the better information to the readers. From the heading of the articles, both articles show a logical relation in the sentence. Indonesia naval captain says may have located missing plane tail’s section ’s New Straits Times shows a projection relation marked by the verbal process says, while AirAsia tail section located, blackbox still missing ’s The Jakarta Post shows an expansion relation. It is also very interesting to see whether the headings of the articles determine the whole or the dominant logical relations appeared in the text. Furthermore, the comparison between Jakarta Post and New Straits Times is also due to know how these most popular and oldest English newspapers in both countries construct the text based on its logical semantic relation. Moreover, both newspapers are consistently exposing news of AirAsia QZ8501, a Malaysian- company airlines which crashed while flying with mostly Indonesian passengers.

3.3. Data Collection Procedure

The data is collected by using some procedures. They are: 1. Preliminary Observation 32 The articles are determined based on preliminary observation. Both articles are about similar topic. The number of sentences in each article is 30 sentences. 2. Collecting the Data The first article is an online article taken from newspaper website www.nst.com.my, an official website of New Straits Times. On the other hand, the second article is collected from printed The Jakarta Post which is published daily. The data collected are clause complexes from valid sentences contained in both articles. 3. Classifying the Data Both articles are then re-observed. Each sentence of the text is then classified either it is a clause or a clause complex of two, three or more clauses. Both clauses and clause complexes are presented.

3.4. Data Analysis

In analyzing the data, the techniques used are based on procedures for a Systemic Functional Linguistic analysis, an investigation into clause complexing relations. The data analysis includes: a Displaying all the clause complexes in a table, b Numbering each clause complex, c Identifying taxis relation d Identifying logical semantic relation and each marker, e Counting all the identified elements using a simple percentage formula. The formula is: F P = x 100 N