3. Datum 3 The 4
th
sentence a.
Representation Analysis
But Israels prime minister cheered the failure of the talks, saying the agreement reportedly on the table would have been a jackpot for
Iran. Irans president, meanwhile, tried to reassure his parliament that he wont trade away Tehrans ability to produce nuclear fuel in any
agreement to lift international sanctions. The 4
th
sentence
In the previews analysis, U.S. allies shows Israel is as the one of its allies. In the 4
th
sentence, the journalist presents Israel to give a statement. As like as Kerry’s statement, the journalist also shows Iran in negative perspective from
Israel’s indirect speech. It sees in the analysis as follows.
Table.3.4. The representation analysis of Datum 3
Sentence Representation in clause: Metaphor
But Israels prime minister cheered the
failure of the talks, saying the agreement
reportedly on the table would have
been a jackpot for Iran.
1. “Cheered”
2. “jackpot”
Representation in clause: 1. Behavioral process The behaver
Behavioral verb
Israels prime minister Cheered
Representation in clause: 2. Verbal process The Sayer
Verbal The verbiage
Israels prime minister
Saying the agreement
reportedly on the table would have
been a jackpot for Iran
Representation in clause combination: Cohesion devices
Pronoun Conjunction
Determiner
Its allies And
The Islamic Republic
Representation inter-clause combination
Pros with Israel Cons with Iran
In the clause, “But Israels prime minister cheered the failure of the talks”, the journalist shows
Israel’s reaction about the nuclear negotiation. By the word “cheered” „cheered‟cheertʃ Ӏ ərtʃ Ӏ rverb[I], means to give a loud shout of
approval or encouragement.
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In the case, “cheered” means give a loud shout of
approval . As verb,
“cheered” shows physical actions by Israel’s prime minister of
“the failure of the talks”.
The word “cheered” as behavioral verb is the physical action, sometimes
use to support a thing. The behavioral verb needs a subject as a participant, and
Halliday terms this participant the behaver.
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In the case, the Israel’s prime minister as the person who cheers or the behaver. Although, the process is
intransitive or may not take an object, but the journalist shows the object, i.e., the failure of the talk.
The behavioral process shows the journalist’s perspective, because of the behavioral verb is the physical action should be proven by him
although it presents by indirect speech too. The sentence also uses the verbal process. In the process, the journalist
shows that the Israel’s prime minister as the sayer, and the verbiage is “the agreement reportedly on the table would ha
ve been a jackpot, for Iran”. Both of the behavioral and verbal process, the journalist tries to show the objectivity on
his own perspective. It is proven by two clauses that contain the behavioral and verbal verb in one sentence.
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Ca rigde adva ed lear er’s di tio ary, Op Cit
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Finch, Geoffrey. Op Cit. P. 117
In the sentence, “jackpot” is marked as a stressing word,
Jackpot ’dʒ æk.p t-p :tnoun [C] the largest prize offered in a competition.
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It has metaphor meaning, that is real the largest prize or the largest harm. Metaphor
is not only about a beauty literature, because it could establish what does the reality purposes as positive or negative.
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According to the sentence, the word “jackpot” means a largest prize for Iran, because the Israel’s prime minister
enjoys with the failure result. Moreover,
“the failure of the talks” uses article or determiner “the”. The article
“the” is definite article which means the reader knows the particular thing referring to, because is explained before by the journalist. In addition,
“the failure of the talks
” means nuclear talks with Iran that breaks without an agreement. The Israel’s prime minister cheered “the failure of the talks”, because if the
negotiation got the deal, it would be “jackpot” for Iran. The analysis presents the
journalist is pros with Israel and contra with Iran, by positioning Israel’s statement
who does not like the negotiation because it would be jackpot for Iran.
Consequently, by the representation analysis, the journalist represents his negative perspective of the Israel’s prime minister that is quoted in indirect
speech. It shows that Israel disagrees with the negotiation because Iran would get prizes from this negotiation on nuclear talks.
b. Intertextuality Analysis
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Ibid.
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Eriyanto. Op Cit. P. 290
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