39 The Jakarta Globe is a relatively new Indonesian English-language
newspaper. It was firstly published in 2008 and it has claimed to be the Indonesia’s most-read English-language newspaper. Since these two are the most
reliable English-language newspaper in Indonesia, they are chosen to be the object of the study. However, though both newspapers have the title ‘Jakarta’, the
coverage of the news is not only about Jakarta, but it covers the news from all regions in Indonesia and it also covers worldwide issue.
The International New York Times is an English-language international newspaper. The newspaper combines the news from its own correspondent and
the news of The New York Times. It is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories. The reason why it is chosen is
because the print edition is also available in Indonesia. The print edition can be easily found in an imported-book bookstore in Indonesia. Therefore, it is more
reliable rather than other foreign newspapers like USA Today, the printed edition of which is difficult to find in Indonesia
The online edition was chosen due to the effectiveness in analysing the data later. Having had the online edition, it was easier to count the words in order
to make same exact length for the articles used as the data. Moreover, it was easier as well to count the number of determiners used in the articles.
D. Size of Data
There were fifteen articles which were used as the data. These fifteen articles were gathered from those three online English-language newspapers.
40 Therefore, there were five articles which were taken from each newspaper. The
length of the articles was more less 800-900 words. The articles used in this research were taken from five categories, namely: sports, entertainment, health,
science and technology and travelling. Then, from the three newspapers, the writer would find articles which suited the length and the chosen category.
Therefore, each category would have three articles from The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe and International New York Times. The reason why the articles
were placed into categories was to make the analysis more relevant. The writer of the research collected fifteen articles from the newspapers’
websites, with 800-900 words length considering that they would be enough to represent the data. Out of 800-900 words, the number of determiners would be
enough to observe the existed determiner and the deletion. The existed determiner and the deletion itself could be found in a noun and a noun phrase NP. As an
addition, the size of data would give enough determiner deletion to describe the effect on the newspaper writing style after the deletion later.
E. Data Analysis Method
In analysing the news articles, the writer employed the document analysis method. Therefore, there were some steps which were done to analyse the data.
The first step was choosing the articles. In choosing the articles, the writer searched through the online edition of The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe and
International New York Times. Then, the writer searched the articles based on the decided topic. After an article was chosen, they were copied into Microsoft Word
41 in order to count the length of the article. Once the article fulfilled the requirement
set by the writer, having approximately 800-900 words, then it was saved into a folder.
The second step was reading the articles. It was done in order to match the content of the articles to the decided topics. While reading the articles, the
nouns and also the noun phrases were also underlined to make ease for the next step.
The third step was classifying the determiners. In classifying the determiners, the articles were read once again to ensure that they matched the
topics. This step was a crucial part of the research since classifying the determiners would answer the first and second research problems on kinds of
determiners used in the articles and the possible deletion occurred in the articles. In classifying the determiners, the theory from Close was employed. The
writer made a checklist based on the definition of determiners and their division from Close. Below was the example of the checklist which was used to classify
the determiners and the deletion. Figure 3.1. Classification of Determiners
No. NounNoun
Phrase Determiner
Dele tion
Identifiers Quantifiers
Articles Dem Poss Nume
ral Inde
finit e
aan the
zero
Total
42 The figure above was the example of the table used as the checklist for the
articles. The determiners a or an represented the indefinite articles, while the represented the definite article. In the figure, Zero refers to the zero article. Dem
refers to demonstratives, while Poss refers to possessives. Then, there were the numeral and indefinite, which meant indefinite quantifiers. The last column was
to check the possible deletion occurred in the news articles. Since the determiners had been identified in the second step, the process of classifying was meant to
verify the identification while inputting the data into the tables. The fourth process was re-reading through the articles. This process was
done in order to verify that no determiners and no deletions were left out during the process. The last step was comparing the data. This step was also crucial for
the study since it provided the answers for the third research problem on discovering the possible effects that might occur toward the determiner deletion
occurrences in The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe and International New York Times.
Below was the example of the full table of the classification of noun and noun phrases to find out the determiners used and also the possible deletion which
occurred. The table below was taken from Appendix 3 which classified the determiners and the deletion from The Jakarta Post’s article on the sport topic.
No. NounNoun
Phrase Determiner
Dele tion
Identifiers Quantifiers
Articles Dem Pos
s Num
eral Inde
finit e
aan the
zero 1.
Doctors √
2. a
grim assessment
√
43 3.
Michael Schumachers
head injuries √
4. the Formula One
√ 5.
his skiing accident
√ 6.
the French Alps √
7. a
medically induced coma
√ 8.
his brain √
The table above was not complete. The complete analysis was presented in the appendix. This table presented the findings that the writer got during the
process of classifying the data.
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CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
