Due to the above reasons the researcher decided to conduct a transitivity analysis of the national geographic news in the topic of Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or
―Nothing Extraordinary?‖
1.2 Statements of the Problem
In this research, the statement of the problems are: 1. What process, participants, and circumstances are found in National Geographic News?
2. How is the field of discourse of National Geographic News?
1.3 Scope of the Study
The study of discourse analysis is so much complex, thus in this study, the researcher wants to limit the discussion in the transitivity analysis found in the content of website of
National Geographic news in the topic of Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or ―Nothing Extraordinary?‖. Therefore, the National Geographic news analyzed here is the
object of the study. It covers the processes, participants, and circumstances found in the News of National Geographic and its field of discourse.
1.4 Objectives of the Study
Dealing with the problem statement above, The researcher would like to achieve the following objectives:
1. To find out the process, participants, circumstances found in National Geographic News.
2. To describe the field of discourse of National Geographic News.
1.5 Significances of the Study
The researcher expects that the results of this analysis and study can be of significant in the following ways:
1. Enriching the researchers‘ attention to the technique analysis of transitivity. So that it
can add knowledge to them in understanding the transitivity analysis in news. 2.
Providing an additional reference pertaining to transitivity analysis for the students of the English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Dian Nuswantoro University.
3. Encouraging the readers to understand transitivity and the researcher hopes that the
analysis could be applied by anyone who wants to analyze a written text this way.
1.6 Thesis Organization
This thesis is organized into the following chapters: Chapter 1 is introduction, which describes background of the study, statement of the
problem, scope of study, objective of the study, significance of the study, and thesis organization.
Chapter 2 discusses review of related literature. This covers the grammar, metafunction, ideational meaning, transitivity, types of processes, and field of discourse on
which the data analysis is based. Chapter 3 contains research method that includes research design, unit of analysis,
source of data, technique of data collection, and technique of data analysis. Chapter 4 presents research finding and discussion.
Chapter 5 consists of conclusions and suggestions.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
