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4. 14.2 Communicative Purpose
From the register I can determine that the communicative purpose of the text is to inform the readers that there was an accident on a highway
near the Red Sea Port of Jeddah. Twenty one people were killed in the accident. It is informed that the accident occured on Friday when a
vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis and 2 Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint. In the last paragraph the writer mentioned that around 4000
people die each year in road accidents.
4.14.3 Text Structure
The generic structure of the text is Newsworthy events Background events Sources.
Newswothy event occurs in the beginning of the text paragraph 1 . We can see in sentence Twenty – one people were killed when two
vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Background events occurs in paragraph two. This stage begins with
Al-Riyadh newspaper said the accident occured on Friday when a vehicle carrying14 Yamenis and two Saudis tried to avoid a police checklis by
going aroud it,and remmed into an incoming car c five carrying five passangers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan.
Sources occurs in third paragraph. It begins with Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in Saudi Arabia mainly due to
reckleness – Reuters.
4.14.4 Significant Lexico – grammatical Feature
The text focuses on the information about road accident that happened on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. In the
accident, twenty – one people were killed. Information on the use of headlines can be seen in the text. The
processes that are seen in the text are : Material process occurs in 6
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clauses, Verbal Process occurs in 2 clauses. The use of passive sentences are supported in the text, as well as circumstances .
Information on the use of headlines :
Twenty – one killed in road accident.
Material Process :
Twenty – one people were killed ......when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city
of Jeddah .....when a vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis
and two Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint by going around it ......and rammed into an incoming car carrying five passengers from
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan. Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in Saudi Arabia
mainly due to recklessness.
Verbal Process saying verbs :
A newspaper reported on on Sunday Al- Riyadh newspaper said
Passive Sentence :
Twenty-one were killed
Circumstances :
On a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah place The accident occured on Friday time
And rammed into an incoming car carrying five passangers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan place
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The tenses that occur in the text 14 are Past Tense 7 clauses and Present Tense 1 clause . Past Tense becomes the dominant one. The
examples of tenses in the text are :
Past Tense :
Twenty one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city of
Jeddah, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Al-Riyadh newspaper said the accident occurred on Friday when a vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis
and two Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint by going around it, and rammed into an incoming car carrying five passengers from Saudi
Arabia , Egypt and Sudan.
Present Tense :
Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in Saudi Arabia mainly due to recklessness - Reuters
Based on the analysis above the text is short functional text of News Item genre since the communicative purpose of the text is to inform
readers about the road accident that happened on a highway near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and the generic stucture of text consists of
Newsworthy event Background event Sources . The processes that occur in the text are material process, verbal process. The material
process becomes the dominant one. Passive sentence and circumstances supported the newsworthy text.
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Text 15 p. 187
4.15.1 Analysis of text 15 Register analysis of text 15 is as follow :
Field : News item reported by news office Reuters . The newsworthy item is earthquake jolts Japanese Capital. The complete one can
be seen in first paragraph of the text. Tenor : Journalist or news writer with public reader. It can be seen in
clause TOKYO Reuters – a slight earthquake jolted Japenese Mode
: It is written text to be read. It uses complete sentence and pattern. We can see it in sentence A slight earthquake jolted the
Japenese capital last night but authorities said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
4.15.2 Communicative Purpose
