18 2000: 68. All of the items above show how magazines have unique and
distinctive features compared to another media. The example of a special interest magazine is football magazines. Football
magazine is similar sport news. they tell their readers about football in its news or article; although in football magazine, the content of the news only discuss about
one kind of sport, that is football. These theories will be the base of the analysis of the thesis. The stylistic
analysis theory is used to analyze the linguistic features of the magazine. The linguistic features that are going to be analyzed is, graphology, grammar, and
lexis of the magazine. The definition of the magazine and its purpose is used to show the effect of those linguistic features to the reader of magazines.
C. Theoretical Framework
This part explains the contribution of the theories and related studies in solving the problems mentioned in Chapter I. It is important to include the related
theories and related studies as the foundation to analyze the object of the study. In order to answer the first problem, there are some theories that will be used.
Theories of capitalizations and punctuation by Ehrlich 1977 are used to find the capitalization and punctuation used in the articles. Theories of metaphor proposed
by Phillip, Espey, and Mulhauser also by Carlshamre are used to recognize metaphors in the articles. To determine terms in the article, definition of ‘term’
from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 2009 is also used. Those
19 theories will be used to answer the first problem formulation, which is to find the
linguistic features from the articles of Club Focus of World Soccer magazines. To answer the second problem, which is to find out the possible effect of the
linguistic features in the article, there are a few step that will be taken. The writer compares the usage of capitalization and punctuation in the article with the
standard function of capitalization proposed by Ehrlich. To find out the possible effects of the metaphors, theories proposed by Anatol Stefanowitsch 2005 will
be used. Other possible effects of lexical features by Wales 2001 will also be used to further explain the possible effect of the linguistic features in the article.
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This section consists of four parts: object of the study, approach of the study, and research method.
A. Object of the study
The English football magazine World Soccer will be the source of the study. The object of the study is a regular column in World Soccer magazine called Club
Focus column. It usually consists of 6 pages. Its content focuses on discussing one
football club that is rising or having a boost of performance and doing well in its respective league.
World Soccer magazine is a famous English monthly football magazine in
the world. It has been translated to various language, and is published in many countries with their own content. According to the official facebook page of the
magazine, World Soccer is the definitive authority on the world’s favourite game. World Soccer
is Britain’s longest-established football magazine. The magazine itself is based on UK, but the news and article it delivers is not UK biased.
https:www.facebook.comWorldSoccerMagazineinfo accessed April 4th 2013. The edition used for this thesis is World Soccer edition November 2011,
December 2011, and March 2012. There is one column that is going to be analyzed in this study, which is the Club Focus column. The column is a regular
column in the magazine and it focuses on highlighting the football club in the world that has a very good progress in the previous months or in the current
