7 theories of linguistic features and used those theories to identify and analyze the
linguistic features of the news title. In the end, he concluded his research part by part. In the first part,
graphological feature, there were various font size and font family used in the news title. Second part, phonological features, he said that it is common to find
combination of phonological features in one news title. Third part, grammatical features, there were certain tenses to be used to change a word and some word
categories were omitted. The last part, lexical feature, he stated that various lexical features were stated in news title. 2010:67
The similarity of the study above and the study conducted this time is that it discusses about sport news in a mass media. However, even though they discuss
about sport, the object of the study between these two studies are different. The study above discusses news title in a newspaper while the study conducted this
time discusses columns in sport magazine.
3. Study of Magazine
The last study that is going to be reviewed in this study is a research by Felix Suparno. His research that is going to be discussed is entitled A Study
Language and Sign in Time Magazine’s Front Covers Issued in January to December 2006: Stylistics – Semiotics Approach.
Felix Suparno discussed about the language style in Time’s cover and headline using stylistic – semiotics
approach. This research was done “to help the readers to understand stylistically
8 and semiotically the headlines and visual objects found in Time magazine’s front
covers.” 2007:ix In conducting his study, Felix Suparno tried to analyze the cover of Time
Magazine by collecting Time magazine issued from January until December 2006. He stated in his problem formulation that he tried to determine the language styles
used in the magazine’s headline. After that, he tried to find the semiotic interpretations of the written texts and visual objects found in the magazine’s
covers. He found a lot of theories on stylistic and semiotic, and then used those theories in answering his problem formulation.
In the conclusion, Felix Suparno said that, From the analysis, the researcher can conclude that there are certain
stylistics devices applied in Time magazine’s headlines. In terms of grammar, Time uses three largest tank scales of grammatical units it
involves sentence, clause, and phrase. These forms take two syntactic classes; statement and question. This investigation has confirmed that
statement is used to give a sense of information and question is used to arouse the readers curiousity about the issue presented in the magazine.
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The similarity of both studies is they discuss about the magazines and using stylistics as the theory in conducting the study. The difference of those studies is:
Felix Suparno’s study uses headline cover of a magazine as the object of research and also use semiotics theory to conduct his study. The study conducted this time,
however, uses articles as the object of the research.
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B. Review of Related Theories 1.
