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D. Research Significance Benefit
The significancesbenefits of making this research are: 1.
This research is completed because, so far, there are not too many researches that discuss about appraisal yet. There are only few journals and books about
appraisal and English Appraisal Theory. Therefore, this research about appraisal is accomplished to contribute a new development for appraisal
especially in gossip news text. 2.
It is significant to make the reader understand more about the English Appraisal analysis of a discourse and provide an understandable justification
about the appraising items that is used to evaluate someone or something. 3.
For English Department students, this research can be read to comprehend an analysis of text using Systemic Functional Linguistic study especially English
Appraisal Theory or as a reference. 4.
The analysis of appraisal can be used to determine the way the gossip news‟ writer expresses
his ideas which influence the artists‟ and readers‟ image toward his texts.
E. Scope of the Research
Appraisal is applied in the discourse to show the evaluation or attitude of some issues. This research examines the attitude that happens in the texts taken
from a website perezhilton.com. There are hundreds of artists on this gossip news website, but this study only focuses on four artists; Katy Perry, Leona Lewis,
Miley Cyrus, and Chris Brown.
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artist. The reason is that the texts and those four celebrities can represent the voice or prosody and the ideology of Perez Hilton‟s gossip news texts. In addition, there
should be at least two texts for each artist to be analysed, because if it is only one, it could not mean anything. This means, that one text is not enough to prove the
way the writer writes the texts and the ideology of the writer in the texts. The classifications are;
Katy Perry : “Russell Gets In Good with Katys Parentals”, and “Katy and Russell, Going Strong”,
Leona Lewis : “Leona‟s First Solo Show”, “Leona Speaks Lewis Staying Positive Despite Being Attacked”,
Miley Cyrus : “Miley Has Bad Taste”, “No Miley, Not Everyone Knows Who You Are”,
Chris Brown : “Glambert Out Beat-Her-Down In?”, and “Chris Brown Heckled By Woman In Public”.
This research does not compare and does not analyze some texts which have one same issue, but it compares some texts having different issue with the
same writer, Perez Hilton. It is because the researcher wants to find the way the writer of the gossip news texts expresses his ideas in his texts.
F. Research Methodology
This thesis belongs to a descriptive and qualitative research. It is because it discusses about linguistics phenomena in the forms of words and language.
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1 Moreover the data is in the form of text which contains attitudes, and what is
analyzed in this research is those attitudes. The approach that is used in this thesis is the application of Systemic
Functional Linguistics SFL. The research analyzes some gossip news texts
written by Perez Hilton which are realized by the appraising items. The source of data of this research are eight gossip news texts taken from
perezhilton.com exposing some Hollywood celebrities. The primary data are all
appraising items in the texts, and the secondary data are the information of the texts‟ writer, Perez Hilton. The technique of taking the sample is total sampling
because all data are analyzed. The triangulation applied in this research is only the source of data
triangulation . The data are taken from eight texts from perezhilton.com.
The analysis of the data is through some stages; domain, taxonomy, componential and finding cultural values.
G. Thesis Organisation
Kategori