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world English and it belongs to the expanding circle, English has been a foreign language in Indonesia. The fact that Indonesia only belongs to expanding circle,
makes English has no wide use in the society especially as a medium of communication Lauder, 2008: 11. Therefore, this research is important to see
how the Indonesian journalist writes the news articles when they are not used to English as their main language. Moreover, the style of deleting determiner in
name phrase apposition is relatively recent and is in Britain largely Jucker, 1992: 40. The present researcher is eager to know whether this style exists in English-
language newspapers published in Indonesia.
B. Theoretical Framework
Having known the nature of stylistics study, that is analysing distinctive features of language and the description of its purpose and effect in the text as the
nearest domain where the homogenous and specific of languages exists, this research aims to conduct a stylistic study on one of the texts, which is newspaper.
Since there are four categories which are proposed by Leech and Short 1981 in conducting stylistic analysis, this research will only take one. It is the grammatical
features. Under the grammatical features itself, there are nine categories which are proposed to conduct. However, this research will take only one, namely
determiner which belongs to the word classes. In analysing the determiners and also the deletions, the further analysis
uses the theory of articles and determiners proposed by Close 1977, Yule 2004 and Quirk et al 1985. Bell’s model theory of determiner deletion on descriptive
36 noun phrase NP, in apposition with a second noun phrase will also be used.
Bell’s theory will be supported by other studies that are done by Ryden 1975, Jucker 1992 and other relevant studies on newspaper language. However, it will
not be the only focus of this research. This research focuses on finding any determiner deletion in the newspaper articles. It may be deletion related to noun
phrase name appositions or deletion in any noun phrases. This theory helps the present researcher to answer the first research question related to the context of
the determiner deletion, especially related to the name apposition which has become the style of newspaper writing Quirk et al, 1985: 276.
The analysis is applied to online newspaper articles, which are taken from the second type of online newspapers. The three English-language
newspapers in this research used as the object of the study are The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe and International New York Times. Those three English-
language newspapers have both print and online edition. However, this research only takes the online edition in order to make the analysis easier, especially in
counting the determiners and the words used. Moreover, in terms of provided space, online edition is more limited. Therefore, the news writers have to able to
make use of the provided space well. Related to this fact, the deletion process is more likely to happen in order to fulfil the limited space of writing. These facts
will be found out through the analysis later.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
There are five points which this chapter will try to explain. The first is the type of study. It will give a slight overview on kind of research that this study
has. The second is type of data. It will also give a slight overview on type of data used in this research. The third is source of data. It will give a slight overview on
the sources of data. Then, the last is the data analysis method. It will give a slight insight how the data will be analysed.
A. Type of Study
This research is categorized as a descriptive stylistic study since it describes the natural use of language in real life, in this case language use in
newspaper. This study belongs to stylistic study because it attempted to find the artistic principles underlying a writer’s choice of language. In a stylistic study,
there were four general headings: lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech and cohesion and context Leech and Short, 1981:74. The focus
of this research, the determiner and its deletion, belonged to the grammatical categories. Therefore, in this research, the determiner was used in order to try to
reveal the artistic principles owned by the news writers. This study was also a descriptive research since it “attempts to describe,
explain and interpret conditions…and to examine a phenomenon that is occurring at a specific places and time”
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