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crumbled. 7
They would endure 12 years of punitive sanctions which the UN
estimates killed nearly 1.7 million Iraqis.
Negative appreciation, reaction-impact.
The sanctions
8 Iraqis would witness the severity of
the wanton violence that sectarianism would create.
Negative appreciation, reaction-impact.
The violence
No Chunks
Analysis Target
9 And for the first time in Iraqs history,
Islamic fanaticism would rear ugly head thanks to the constant stream of
terrorists pouring across Iraqs poorly defended borders from countries
known to be US allies. 1 Negative appreciation,
reaction-impact. 2 Negative appreciation,
reaction- quality. 1 The head
thanks 2 The Iraqs
defended borders
10 In the early days of the planning for the Iraq war there was one significant
factor that the US government overlooked - planning for the post-war
period. Positive appreciation,
valuation. The factor
that the US government
overlooked
3.6.2 Analysis of the Text Based on the System of Amplification
It has been clearly illustrated in the system network of appraisal in Chapter II that there are two kinds of resources for amplification of attitude Martin and Rose, 2003. They
are termed force and focus. Force is used to raise or lower the degree of a writer’s evaluation, while focus is used to sharpen or soften it. Either of these two resources may be
used to amplify attitudes – affect, judgment, and appreciation. From the part of the text taken as the sample analysis it is apparent that the writer
amplifies the attitude realised in the text mostly by means of force activated through the use of intensifiers and attitudinal lexis. Some clauses below can be taken as the examples:
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- Successive investigations into pre-war intelligence claims have revealed that Iraq had neither the capacity nor the capability to produce weapons of mass
destruction
.
attitudinal lexis - Sectarian militias quickly filled the gap and seized control of vital ministries
.
attitudinal lexis
-
So its fair to say that it has gone from extremely bad, but 2005 was not a peaceful time in Iraq. Its still very very dangerous on the streets
.
intensifier - Nevertheless, there has been progress towards peace in large areas of southern
and central Iraq, where the situation is far less violent than it was even a year ago. intensifier
In many spots in the text it seems that the writer uses the resource of attitudinal lexis, besides intensifiers, to amplify attitude. This is mostly done through the use of more
than one lexis joined together in one clause to highly amplify attitude.
3.6.3 Analysis of the Text Based on the System of Source
In analyzing the source of attitude, there are two kinds of sources of attitude: monoglossia
and heteroglossia Martin and Rose, 2003. Monoglossia refers to the source of attitude which is simply the author White calls it “Authorial”, whereas heteroglossia
refers to the source of attitude which is other than the writer White calls it “Non- Authorial”. Since attitude may be realized through three possible resources:
affect,judgment, and appreciation, the analysis of source is traced in each of the three resources used in the text.
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATIONS
This chapter deals with the core of the study, the findings and their interpretations. They are results of the analysis done in the view points of appraisal system which is used
in Al-Jazeera articles. It presents the answers to the problems stated in chapter one. They are 1 the attitudes used in the news articles and 2 How the attitudes are used to express
feelings in the news articles. Following the procedures of the data analysis as described in Chapter III, the
documentation did to the articles under the topic based on these two questions, which were presented by Al-Jazeera. The documented articles are then analyzed to disclose any
information related to the questions addressed. Therefore, this chapter is then divided into two sections: 1 the attitudes used in the articles, and 2 how the attitudes are used to
express feelings in the articles. In this chapter, the findings – based on the data analysis – and their interpretations are presented by using tables and several excerpts. To see the
complete results of the analysis, readers are invited to refer to the appendices provided at the end of this thesis.
There are six articles for this study. The decision for selecting these six articles was based on the appropriateness of the articles to the topic. Consequently this study was done
to these six articles found in Al-Jazeera in the period of two weeks, March,12 – April, 1, 2008. These six articles were analyzed on the ways as stated in chapter three. The analyses
are not presented completely here. This chapter presents only the general findings on each
