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.