Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Nowadays people depend on mass media to know what happens around them. Therefore, it is fair to say that mass media has become a very important aspect to society. There are a lot of mass media published in the world in various forms. They are fulfilling the hunger of society of news and what happens around them. However, people are selective of things that they want to know. Some people are only interested in politics; others maybe only interested in sports. This causes the heterogeneity in the mass media. As the result, there are many forms of mass media according to the topic or the kind of news they make. Those different mass media have their own linguistic features which differentiate one mass media from another. Magazine is one form of mass media that delivers news with its own linguistic features. Magazine is a very popular type of mass media and is commonly found in the society. According to McLoughlin, magazine is a relatively long shelf-life 2000: xi. It means that magazine can last longer than newspaper that only lasts a day. Since it can last longer than a newspaper, it is also issued at more seldom interval. The interval depends on the publisher of magazines. It may be weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly. Magazine focuses on bringing news or article to entertain its reader since it has to be able last more than one day. A magazine, however, also has a lot of types depend on its target readers. There are magazines which aim a much wider audience. This type is referred as 2 ‘center of interest’ magazines McLoughlin, 2000:2. This type of magazine brings a more general topic to attract a lot of reader. However, mostly magazines nowadays tend to focus themselves on a certain topic. These magazines are called special interest magazines. Special interest magazines deal with certain topic like computing, household crafts, music, sport, and automotive. These different magazines have different language which will reflect their specialist nature McLoughlin, 2000: 2. Therefore, it can be said that different nature or specialization will result different linguistic feature of a magazine. One of the examples of a special interest magazine is a football magazine. Football magazine, like its name, give article about football to its reader. They give the reader various information about football like the history of a certain football club, preview of a competition, and a biography of a player. It also has certain linguistic features that differentiate it from other special interest magazine. This thesis focuses on the linguistic feature on a special interest magazine. For the analysis, this thesis will study a type of a special interest magazine, which is a football magazine to find out its linguistic features. This study will analyze linguistic features in an article of football magazine, taken from English football magazine “World Soccer”. “World Soccer” is an English football magazine that is published in all around the world and has become one of the most favorite football magazines in the world, especially in Indonesia.

B. Problem Formulation