CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In this chapter, the writer takes three studies which are related to the analysis of this study. There are also some theories that are essential to answer the
problem formulations. The theoretical framework shows the relation among those related theories that will help the writer to analyze the tense choices in the Jakarta
Post headlines news on November 1 – 30, 2007.
A. Review of Related Studies
There are three studies which are taken as related studies. Three of them are the undergraduate theses of the students from Sanata Dharma University. The
first related study is “A Study of –ly Adverb in Washington Post and The Jakarta Post Articles”. This study was written by Dionisius Pimarianto in 2005. This
undergraduate thesis focused in analyzing the kinds of –ly adverbs and the positions of the adverb in a clause. From the analysis we may conclude that there
are 5 kinds of adverb which are used in the articles, and by looking at the distributions, the adverbs always occur in the middle position and in the final
position. The adverbs never occur in the initial position. The second study is “A Study on English Preposition in in Newsweek
Headline News Issued from May 2005 – October 2005”. Elisa Widyastuti wrote this undergraduate thesis in 2006. The aim of this study is to know the
construction and the meanings of English preposition in in Newsweek headline
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news. In here, the most frequent construction which appears in the headline news as in + NP and most of the prepositions in show the meaning of denoting spatial
rather than denoting time. The third study was “A Study on Grammatical Meanings of Finite Verb
Phrases in The Jakarta Post Headline News Issued in January 2007” written by Skolastika Pritania Nirwesti in 2007. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the
finite verb phrases in the headline news. The writer analyzed the finite verb phrases and found the grammatical meanings to discuss their importance in the
news writing. In her study, she found that the finite verb phrases were more frequently used than the non-finite ones. Those finite verb phrases indicated some
grammatical meanings such as aspects terminate, perfective, progressive, moods indicative, subjunctive, imperative, voices active and passive and tenses past,
present, future. In here, the aspects were dominated by the terminate aspect, the moods were dominated by indicative mood. The voices were dominated by
passive voice, while the tenses were dominated by past tense. The
writer takes
“A Study of –ly Adverb in Washington Post and The Jakarta Post Articles” and “A Study on English Preposition in in Newsweek
Headline News Issued from May 2005 – October 2005” as related studies because both of them take the data from headlines news and also the articles from news
report such as magazine and newspaper. The writer also takes the third study “A Study on Grammatical Meanings of Finite Verb Phrases in The Jakarta Post
Headline News Issued in January 2007” because this undergraduate thesis analyzes the finite verb phrases and almost similar with the writer’s main focus to
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