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responsible for preventing crisis from becoming any worse by taking a necessary decision, in this case, the bailout of Bank Century. In other words, the writer of
the second text agrees with the bailout of Bank Century. In this thesis, the researcher is interested in analyzing appraisals including
attitude, source, and graduation of two texts on opinion column in the Jakarta Post exposing the bailout of Bank Century. That is why this research intends to study
A Comparative Analysis of Appraisals of Two Texts on Opinion Column in the Jakarta Post Exposing the Bailout of Bank Century Based on Systemic
Functional Linguistics Approach
C. Research Objective
Based on the research background and the problem statement above, the objectives of this research are:
1. To find out the types of attitudes employed in the
texts. 2.
To find out the effects of attitudes towards the genre, prosody and ideology of the texts.
3. To find out the reason why the writer used the attitudes in the texts.
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D. Research Questions
The research intends to answer the following questions: 1.
What types of attitudes are employed in the texts? 2.
How are the attitudes expressed in the genre, prosody and ideology of the texts?
3. Why are the attitudes employed in the texts?
E. Research Significance Benefits
The significance of this research is to give the readers an understanding about appraisals as a writer’s tools for expressing hisher feeling and opinion
about an issue or figure’s character in the form of written text. Besides, this research also has several benefits. First, this research gives
the readers better understanding about appraisals used in a text in Systemic Functional Linguistics approach. Second, this research gives an understanding
about the prosody, genre and ideology of a text. Finally, this research also has a benefit as one of sources to other researchers who want to analyze appraisals
employed in a text.
F. Scope of the Research
The researcher is interested in analyzing the attitudes employed in the two texts entitled ―The Fallout of the Century‖ and ―Why the Bank Century Bailout
was a Correct Decision?‖ The researcher focuses to analyze the attitudes to find
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the types of attitudes employed in the texts, the effects of the attitudes to the texts, and the reason why the attitudes are employed in the texts.
G. Thesis Organization
This report of research is systematically written according to thesis organization which consists of five chapters as follows:
Chapter I consists of Introduction. In this chapter the research introduces the background, problem statement, research objectives, research questions,
research significancebenefits, scope of research, and the organizational of the research report.
Chapter II consists of Literature Review. It discusses some theories which are related to the research.
Chapter III consists of Research Methodology. It discusses the research method, data source, technique of data analysis, technique of collecting data
Chapter IV consists of Findings. In this chapter, the researcher processes the data by analyzing and classifying them.
Chapter V consists of Conclusion and Recommendations. In this chapter, the researcher concludes the result and gives some recommendations.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
