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“Blue Moon rising” No.
Punctuation Number of Punctuation
1 Period .
81 2
Comma , 65
3 Question mark ?
4 4
Quotation mark “…” 18
5 Dash –
7 6
Hyphen - 20
Table 6: The number of punctuations in the article “Blue moon rising”
There are 81 periods used in the article. This means there are at least 81 sentences in the article. Hyphens are used again, not only to separate the
compound modifier and the noun they modify in this article. Hyphen also appears to indicate the score of football match … Premier League this season with 6-1
win away…. Another usage of hyphen in this article is in the name of football club, which is Paris Saint-Germain.
2. Lexical Features in the article
Lexical feature, linguistic feature with the form of lexical item, is the main element in the special interest magazine. It creates a particular style of a special
interest magazine. Verdonk states that “style is indeed a distinctive way of using language for some purpose and to some effect.”2002:5. It differentiates one
special interest magazine with the other special interest magazine. Magazine with cooking interest will have different lexical features and also style with sport
interest. The lexical features that can be identified from football magazine is its term football term, and its metaphors.
31 The use of football term is to show to the reader that the subject described
here is about football and the article will be based on football point of view. Metaphor or comparison of things with similarities are used to ease the reader in
reading the article. In this discussion, the metaphor and football terms in the article’s title, graphic, chart, or list of the player will also be discussed because the
chart, graphic, list of players also use football terms and metaphors, and the use of them is the same with the main article.
a. Football Terms
The football terms found in the article is listed below. They are categorized from which article they are found.
i. “Lifting the Turin Cloud”
No Football
Terms Meaning
1 Calciopoli
widespread corruption in Italian football Distaso, 2012:1 2
Season the period of year when particular sports event is held
Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary, Third Edition, Software edition
3 Substitute
a player used for changing the main player, or as a back-up ibid 4
Field Pitch The area that a match is played in.
Coggins,worldsoccer.about.comodglossarygfield.htm, 4
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5 goals
A goal is scored when the entire ball crosses the whole of the goal line.
ibid.,goal.htm
6 Goalkeeper
The only member of a team who is allowed to touch the ball with the hands. ibid.,goalkeeper.htm
7 Midfielder
The player whose job is to link defence and offense. ibid.,midfielder.htm
8 Striker
Player whose role is to score a goal. ibid.,striker.htm
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9 Winger
Wide attacking players whose primary play in the side of field. ibid.,winger.htm
10 Shoot out Also known as penalty shoot-out. A method of deciding a match in a
knockout tournament that has ended level. ibid.,Penalty- Shootout.htm
11 Right back Often called right full back. His role is to stop the opposition and
operate only from the right side of the pitch ibid.,fullback.htm 12 Left back
Often called left full back. His role is to stop the opposition and operate only from the left side of the pitch. ibid.,fullback.htm
13 Central
defenders Player who helps form the central part of his team’s defence.
ibid.,gl_centraldefender.htm 14 Cap
A recognition earned by a player whenever he plays an international match for his country. ibid.,cap.htm
15 Attacking
Midfielder Player who plays on the midfield and support the striker.
ibid.,gl_attackingmidfielder.htm
16 Free transfer The term used when a player moves to another club without any
money. http:www.sportsdefinitions.comsoccerFree-transfer.html, 4
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Condition where a player is lended by a club to another club for a certain time.
18 Transfer
Window a phase where club may sell or buy players
Table 7: List of football terms and their meaning in the article “Lifting the Turin cloud”
Most football terms used by the article are the position of a player in football. Words such as striker, winger, and defender are described and explained
as position of player in a formation. The word transfer is described not as an act of transferring money, but as an act of transferring player from one club into another
club.
ii. “Making dreams come true”
No Football
Terms Meaning
1 Coach
Someone whose job is to teach player to improve their skill. Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary, Third Edition, Software
edition
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2 captain
the leader of a sports team ibid. 3
Substitute a player used for changing the main player, or as a back-up ibid.
4 appearances
Recognition for players after playing in a match. Coggins,worldsoccer.about.comodglossarygappearances.htm,
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cap Recognition earned by a player whenever he plays an international
match for his country. ibid.,cap.htm 6
Centre-back Player who helps form the central part of his team’s defence.
ibid.,gl_central_defender.htm 7
Defender Player who forms part of his team’s defence.
ibid.,gl_defender.htm 8
defensive- midfielder
Player whose role is to break up the opposition’s attacks from the midfield. ibid.,gl_defensive_midfielder.htm
9 finisher
Another term for striker. Player whose role is to score a goal. ibid.,finisher.htm
10 kick off
The start or restart of a game at the beginning of each half or after each goal. ibid.,kickoff.htm
11 left-back
Often called left full back. His role is to stop the opposition and operate only from the left side of the pitch. ibid.,fullback.htm
12 midfield
The middle area of the field occupied primarily by a team’s midfielders.
ibid.,midfield.htm
13 midfielder
The player whose job is to link defence and offense. ibid.,midfielder.htm
14 Stopper
Other terms for defender.Player who forms part of his team’s defense.
ibid.,stopper.htm
15 target-man
A striker who is the target of passes from his teammates. ibid.,target-man.htm
16 winger
Wide attacking players whose primary play in the side of field. ibid.,winger.htm
17 playmaker
Player whose role is to create scoring opportunities for his or her team-mates
Playmaker,http:dictionary.reference.combrowseplaymaker, 4
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Table 8: List of football terms and their meaning in the article “Making dreams come true”
There are 17 football terms found and explained from the article. There are also a lot of football terms that described as the position of a player such as
34 winger, right back, and striker. The words playmaker and target man are a special
word that shows football tactics.
iii. “Blue Moon rising”
No Football
Terms Meaning
1 Captain
The leader of a sports team Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary, Third Edition, Software
edition
2 scout
A person employed to look for people with particular skills, especially in sport or entertainment ibid.
3 season
The period of year when particular sports event is held ibid. 4
Financial Fair Play
Rules which aim to introduce more discipline within club finances and encourage responsible spending investment
Financial Fair Play – Media Information, 25 January 2012
5 Away
A condition where a team is playing in the opponents stadium. Coggins,worldsoccer.about.comodglossaryaway.htm, 4
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6 central
defender Also called a center-back. Player who helps form the central part of
his team’s defence. ibid.,gl_central_defender.htm 7
centre- half
Another term for central defender. Player who helps form the central part of his team’s defence. ibid.,centrehalf.htm
8 defensive
midfield Player whose role is to break up the opposition’s attacks from the
midfield. ibid.,gl_defensive_midfield.htm
9 free-kick
An unobstructed kick of a stationary ball awarded for an infringement by an opposing player. ibid.,free-kick.htm
10 left-back
Often called left full back. His role is to stop the opposition and operate only from the left side of the pitch. ibid.,fullback.htm
11 Right-
back Often called right full back. His role is to stop the opposition and
operate only from the right side of the pitch ibid.,fullback.htm 12
Winger Wide attacking players whose primary play in the side of field.
ibid.,winger.htm
Table 9: List of football terms and their meaning in the article “Blue Moon rising”
From the 12 football terms found in the article, almost half of the terms are about the position of players. There are also rules of football such as Financial
35 Fair Play, which is a regulation made so club do not spend money more than they
can earn.
b. Metaphors
i. “Lifting the Turin cloud”
a. Metaphor 1:
“Lifting the Turin cloud” - page 56
The title of the article is also a metaphor. The Turin mentioned above does not mean the city of Turin. It actually means a football club in Turin, which is
Juventus. The word cloud is also metaphor. The word cloud does not mean the cloud that is hanging in the city of Turin, but something that blocks the glory of
Juventus as in the past 5 years, Juventus never won a trophy despite they are considered as the most successful club in Italy.
b. Metaphor 2:
“Time and again, Juventus have ridden out such storms, coming back to prove
themselves the strongest club in Italian football.” - page 58 From the passage above, the metaphor is in the words ‘ridden out such
storms’. Storms here is compared as a difficult situation, because whenever there is a storm, people will have a difficult situation. The difficult situation that
Juventus have suffered is the Calciopoli scandal which made them relegated. c. Metaphor 3:
“The new coach, a former Juve old boy” - page 58
36 The word ‘boy’ in the passage above does not mean literally a male child, as the
coach is already about 44 years old this year. The boy in the passage means the player in Juventus. Juventus’ player is sometime considered as boy because
Juventus is sometime referred as a lady. This is proven by its nickname La Vecchia Signora
or ‘the Old Lady’. d. Metaphor 4:
“In truth, unlike a lot of big clubs, Juventus…” - page 59 “… and have never been slow to offload big names… “
In the passages above, the words big does not literally mean large in the size or amount, but it means to be famous and known by a lot of people.
e. Metaphor 5:
“… as a battling midfielder for Juventus.” - page 59
The word battling is a metaphor because in a football match, the match is sometime considered as a war where two armed forces have to compete against
each other. f.
Metaphor 6:
“He was always there when the heat was on…” - page 59
The condition heat does not literally mean the high temperature, but it expresses the intense condition or difficult situation. When someone is in difficult
situation of is intense, he usually sweats as if he is feeling hot. g. Metaphor 7:
“… he feels that he has “returned home” in Turin.” - page 59
37 In the passage above, the phrase “returned home” does not signify that he
finally come back to where he lives. Home in the passage above connate a place where someone belongs there and feel really comfortable in that place.
The word Turin, again, like the title, does not imply the city of Turin, but Juventus which is located in Turin.
h. Metaphor 8:
“… another new boy in Montenegro striker…” - page 60
In this passage, the same with the metaphor 4, word “boy” does not really imply a male child. But it implies one player of Juventus.
i. Metaphor 9:
“Juventus look to have the spine of a good team…” - page 60
Spine according to Cambrige Advanced Learner Dictionary, third edition is the line of bones down the center of the back that provide support for the body.
However, this definition cannot be taken literally, as Juventus is not human. The word spine here, like the real spine, is something strong that support or shape a
good team. j.
Metaphor 10:
“… but he remains a vital cog in the Juventus wheel.” - page 60
Cog, if defined literally, is part that connect two wheels and make both wheels move together. In the passage above, he is seen as a cog means he is like a
cog, something that connect things together so they could move. Juventus is seen as a whole system of wheel and move together as a group.
38 k. Metaphor 11:
“A solid, dependable operator who is now well established in the centre of the
Juventus defence” - page 60 In the passage above, the one that being compared is the defence of
Juventus with a machine or vehicle. It is indicated by the word operator as it needs an operator to move a machine. Like a machine, an operator is needed to operate
Juventus defence. l.
Metaphor 12:
“…and has established himself as a key component of the Juventus attack,…” -
page 60 According to Cambridge Advanced Learner dictionary third edition,
component is a part which combines with other part to form something bigger. From that definition, the word component indicates Juventus attack is like
something that consists of a lot of parts.
ii. “Blue Moon Rising”
a. Metaphor 1:
“Blue moon rising” - page 54
The title is a metaphor. The word “rising” means to become higher. It states the similarity of ‘Blue Moon’, an anthem for Manchester city, with something that
goes and become higher. The word ‘blue moon’ here in this case is not a metaphor, because ‘blue moon’ that is meant in the title of this article is the title of song that
is sung by the fans for Manchester City.
39 b. Metaphor 2:
“Of all the challenges from new money to the old order of European football – by
Paris Saint-Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malaga, and even Chelsea – the most powerful is being lodged by Manchester City.” - page 54
The metaphor in the passage above is in the owrd order. The order here symbolizes that the European football is like an old social or political system.
Like a system that is stagnant and never undergoes a lot of changes, the European football has already become a stagnant condition and rarely changes.
c. Metaphor 3:
“PSG are a great club that have been in the wilderness for a few years. They have
big football people like Leonardo and Carlo Ancelloti, a great stadium, but could be in a really difficult place because of the rules people are trying to impose.” -
page 56 In that passage PSG is not really in the wilderness. But it states that the
conditi on in PSG now is like living in the wilderness that is difficult to live in as a result of extreme condition.
d. Metaphor 4
“When former captain and talisman Tevez alledgedly refused to warm-up…” -
page 57 Tevez in the passage above is not really an object. However, he is similar
with a talisman because like a talisman, Tevez is thought to bring a good luck to the club whenever he played.
40 iii.
“Making dreams come true” In the article “Making dreams come true”, there is no metaphor found.
However, there are other lexical features that indicate the informality and entertainment in language, such as hyperbole and idioms.
B. Possible Effects of Linguistic Features
