Review of Related Literature

2.3.4 Review of Related Literature

Some researchers have done analysis about Transitivity system; so this analysis is only a verification of the earlier research findings. Because of that, in conducting this analysis, I have consulted some thesis and previous research findings to help me finish this thesis.They are: Teori Analisis Wacana Pendekatan Sistemik – Fungsional by Sinar 2008. Sinar says that Analisis Wacana adalah aktivitas semiotik yang melibatkan diri seseorang dalam penganalisisan wacana untuk mendeskripsikan wacana – wacana sebagai suatu karya interpretasi, yaitu karya teoritis. Teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional TLSF yang dapat digunakan sebagai kerangka teori dalam menganalisis wacana. The first study was done by Sinar 2003 in her thesis Phasal and Experiential Realizations of Lecture Discourse: A Systemic - Functional Analysis. Sinar introduces general systemic functional linguistic theory GSFLT as a theoretical framework that accommodates certain aspects and dimensions of interpretation that will in turn enable analysts to make appropriate choices whereby the target direction and goal can be achieved efficiently and effectively as an end of a discourse analysis. Another work about SFL was done by Sofina 2002, in her thesis An Analysis of Transitivity Process Types on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Selected Speeches. In this work, she analyzes President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s selected speeches to find the transitivity process that occurred. In her final analysis, she finds the material process 50, 92 as the most dominant process that occurred. Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008 In addition in the two mentioned studies, Inanda 2004, in her thesis An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion In the Cover Story of Tempo. In this work, she analyzes the 5 lexical cohesions in the cover story as a discourse. They are: repetition, synonym, antonym, meronymy, hyponymy. She finds the most dominant lexical cohesion; it is Repetition 69, 19. Martinez 2001, also analyzed text on the transitivity system. The study focuses on the transitivity structure in the corpus of 21 experimental Research Articles RAs in the field of Physical, Biological, and Social Science. He concluded the material and relational process dominated the Research Articles 45 and 35 and very low percentage of behavioural process 0, 2. That is to say, it appears that academic writing does not use behavioural process frequently. Esmat Babaii and Hasan Ansary 2005 from Islamic Azad University, Tehran, with their article titled “On the effect of Disciplinary Variation on Transitivity; the case of Academic Book Reviews”. They analyze the 90 books Reviews BRs from various Disciplines Physics, Sociology, and Literature in terms of both processes and participants of transitivity system. In this study, the classifications of processes and participants introduced by Halliday 1985 and Eggins et.al 1993 were used as the analytical frameworks for the study of BRs texts. The conclusion of their analysis shows the dominant frequency of material process 37, 9. While Existential and Behavioural processes in texts appeared quite inconspicuous that it could be neglected in the final analysis. Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Method

In carrying out this analysis, I do the library research. Regarding to this method, Syafri 2001: 74 says: “Penelitian perpustakaan hanya mengumpulkan informasi dari berbagai jurnal, artikel, buku, monograf yang ada di perpustakaan”.

3.2 Data Collecting Method

I choose the Reader’s Digest Magazine as the primary source of the analysis. In addition, I also use some books, theses, written materials that related to the topic of the analysis. The data are collected by using simple random sampling Rakhmat, 1991: 79. Firstly, there are 12 Reader’s Digest Magazines as the data of population. They are 2003’s editions. Then, I take a piece of paper. Afterwards, I cut a piece of paper into 12 little pieces. Then, I number them one by one. After that, I draw them to get the samples. It is called “Gambling System”. After drawing the 12 Reader’s Digest Magazines as the population, I only take 4 Reader’s Digest Magazines as the sample. So, only 4 Reader’s Digest Magazines will be chosen and analyzed. The 4 Reader’s Digest Magazines that have been chosen by gambling system are: Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008