22 stadium of the club. Below the picture of the player, coach, and stadium, an
explanation or short background are given to inform the reader about them. There are always seven pictures in the article, not including the pictures in
the boxes. There is always one big picture that takes about one and a half page of the magazine. There are also captions in every picture that explains the picture.
There are 3 articles that are used for this research. They are “Lifting the Turin cloud”, “Making dreams come true”, and “Blue moon rising”. “Lifting the
Turin cloud” is taken from World Soccer December 2011 issue. “Making dreams come true” is taken from World Soccer magazine issued in November 2011.
“Blue moon rising” is taken from March 2012 issue. “Lifting the Turin cloud” contains 23 paragraphs and 46 sentences not
including the sentences from the boxes. “Making dreams come true” contains 24 paragraphs and 67 sentences. “Blue moon rising”, meanwhile, contains 32
paragraphs with 82 sentences.
B. Approach of the Study
In analysing the articles in the column, stylistic approach will be used. Stylistics, in Peter Barry’s book Beginning Theory, is “a critical approach which
uses the methods and findings of the sciences of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts.” 2002:203. This statement means that a text can be analysed using
the linguistic features found on the text. However, the text here does not limited into just literary text. Barry added that ‘stylistic does not confine itself to the
analysis of literature and often juxtaposes literary and other kinds of discourse.
23 2002:207. It means that a non-literary text like magazine can also be analysed
using stylistics. The purpose of stylistic approach is to provide ‘hard data’ in analysing the
text Barry, 2002:204. The hard data that is needed to do stylistic approach can be found by analysing the linguistic features found on the texts. The results can
support the idea that article in magazines has function to entertain and give news to the reader.
C. Method of the Study
There were some steps in this analysis. The first step was collecting the data. The data were collected from an English football magazine World Soccer
November 2011, December 2011, and March 2012. The data analysed were not from the entire content of the magazine, but only from Club Focus column. Other
content of magazine would not be included in the analysis. To ease the analysis of the study, the data are taken per article. Therefore,
there are 3 articles that were analysed in this study. They were “Shakhtar Donetsk, Making Dreams Come True”, “Juventus, Lifting the Turin Cloud”, and
“Manchester City, Blue Moon Rising”. The next step was analysing the data. The analysis of the data will be based
on the problem stated in the problem formulation in Chapter I. To answer the first problem, the linguistic features of the data have to be found. The data were
classified and analysed based on the title of the article. To begin in answering the first problem, it is absolutely necessary to read the whole article to find out
24 sentences, words or other features that were applied in the data. For example, to
find the graphology applied in the feature, the article is read to find the type of the font in the article.
Then, the second problem in the problem formulation was answered by applying the theories in Chapter II. This was done in order to show the possible
effects of linguistic features to the text. Theory of linguistic features also explains the possible effect of the linguistic features to the text and therefore can be used to
answer the second problem. The final step then was to draw conclusion from the result of the analysis.
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
