7 formal speech or text to the students. By employing the formal speech as an
authentic example to students, the transcripts are beneficial to provide a vivid description on how the post-modification constructed in a complex phrase.
Therefore, it can encourage students to think and produce an effective sentence accurately.
b. Students
, who learn English. This research can be used as a reference to comprehend the expansion process of the patterns of post-noun modification
constructed in formal speech. Through learning this expansion, it enables students to integrate some phrases into a complex phrase or even complex
sentence. Moreover, the objects of this research enable students to expand their general knowledge of recent global issues and enrich their vocabulary.
2. Professional
Others who can use this study as a reference are debaters and public speakers as professional workers. Either debaters or public speakers tend to
expand the phrase or sentence when they argue about certain issues. In this case, a noun phrase is the most frequent expansion found in the sentence. It happens since
a noun phrase is a constituent that build a sentence. However, it seems difficult to interpret a complex noun phrase since people have different capacity to absorb the
meaning of the topic discussion. Literally, verbal language is different from non verbal language, which can be read and understood by the readers at the same
time. Considering this problem, the debaters and public speakers can use this
8 study to confine the embedding phrases in order to avoid the possible meaning or
the ambiguity that might happen in a sentence of their speeches.
3. Future Researchers
This study can be used by other future researchers as academic references to conduct other further studies dealing with the specific terms of noun phrase.
The future researchers may also compare the findings of this research to their future study by conducting the analysis of the post-noun modification delivered
by native speakers. Meanwhile, the future researcher may proceed with analyzing the critical discourse analysis or the speech act on this speech in order to renew
the noun phrase comprehension.
F. Definition of Terms
There are three definitions of terms that would be described in order to avoid the misinterpretation of this research. The terms are noun phrase, modifiers,
and post-noun modification.
1. Noun Phrase
Jackson 1982, p.66 defines a noun phrase as a phrase which has a noun as its head. As a phrase, a noun phrase can be frequently expanded and modified
by adding modifiers; not only adjectives or the basic noun modifiers instead other elements, such as other nouns or noun phrase, prepositional phrase, verb phrase,
and clauses Kolln Funk, 2012, p.129. To provide the vivid view of noun
