CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Articles in magazines always have their own style in writing. They are written in such a way so that they not only deliver the content of the article, but
also entertain and please the reader as they read them. The linguistic features of the article then become the magazines’ characteristic and style in writing.
This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is linguistic feature in the article. It answers the first question in the problem formulation. The second
part is the possible effect of linguistic features to the reader. It answers the second problem in the problem formulation.
A. The Linguistic Features in the magazine
The linguistic features found in the magazines are divided into 2 main parts. They are graphological feature and lexical feature.
1. Graphological Features in the article
Graphological feature is one of the elements in the written language. It explains how the article is written by giving capitalization, punctuation, or type of
font. In the graphological features, the linguistic features that were analyzed in this thesis are the use of capitalization and the use of punctuation.
The use of capitalization is the usage of capital letter to indicate the beginning of a sentence or to indicate a proper noun. The use of punctuation is
about the usage of a certain symbol to form sentences with certain purpose.
26 However, the capitalization and punctuation in the article’s title, graphic, chart, or
list of the player will not be discussed because the punctuation and capitalization there have different and special usage with the main article. In the graphic or the
chart, the information there mostly uses fragments and not the entire texts are complete sentences. Therefore the rules of capitalization and punctuation can not
be applied there. The data were analyzed based on each article.
a Capitalization
a. “Lifting the Turin cloud”
No Use of Capitalization
Amount 1
At the beginning of a sentence 46
2 Proper nouns
127
Table 1: The number of capitalized words in the article “Lifting the Turin cloud”
According to the table above, there are 127 proper nouns in 46 sentences. On average, there are 2,78 proper nouns in each sentences. This indicates that in
the sport article, there are a lot of proper nouns used in order to mention name of football clubs, players, or competitions. A sentence may contain more than 1
proper noun. The table also shows that there are 46 sentences in the article. From 127 proper nouns, in the article, there are only 51 different proper
nouns. There are a lot of repetitions in the use of proper nouns. Juventus, as the main topic of the article, is used the most in the article. The word “Juventus” is
used about 14 times in the article. The second most used word in the article is “Agnelli”. It is used about 10 times in the article. Other proper noun is only
27 mentioned once or twice. They are usually name of players “Pirlo” and “Buffon”
or football clubs, such as “Torino”, “Siena”, and “Bari”.
b. “Making dreams come true”
No Use of Capitalization
Amount 1
At the beginning of a sentence 74
2 Proper nouns
156
Table 2: The number of capitalized words in the article “Making dreams come
true” According to the table above, there are 156 proper nouns in 74 sentences.
On average, there are 2,08 proper nouns in each sentences. The number indicates that more than one proper noun is a common in the article. The table also shows
that there are 74 sentences in the article, indicated by capitalization at the beginning of the sentence.
From 156 proper nouns or adjectives used in the article. There are 92 different proper nouns that are used in the article. The most used in the article is
the word “Shakhtar” with 12 times, and “Donetsk” with 10 times. Most of other proper nouns are name of people and most of them are mentioned only once or
twice. However, there are people whose names are mentioned more than once. They are Rinat Akhmetov and Mircea Lucescu with about 9 times and 5 times.
28 c.
“Blue moon rising” No
Use of Capitalization Amount
1 At the beginning of a sentence
82 2
Proper nouns 146
Table 3: The number of capitalized words in the article “Blue moon rising”
According to the table above, there are 146 proper nouns in 82 sentences. On average, there are 1,77 proper nouns in each sentences. The number indicates
that more than one proper noun is a common in the article. The table also shows that there are 82 sentences in the article, indicated by capitalization at the
beginning of the sentence. There are 146 proper nouns in the article, and there are 65 different proper
nouns in the article. The most often used proper noun in the article is the focus of the article, that is “Manchester City”. It is repeated for 16 times. The second most
often used proper nouns in the article is Manchester City’s rival, that is Manchester United which is repeated for 11 times. Most of the proper nouns are
names of a person or a club, and they are only used once in the article. b
Punctuation a.
“Lifting the Turin cloud” No.
Punctuation Number of Punctuation
1 Period .
44 2
Comma , 84
3 Question mark ?
2 4
Quotation mark “…” 7
5 Dash –
4 6
Hyphen - 20
Table 4: The number of punctuations in the article “Lifting the Turin cloud”
29 There are 44 periods used in the article. This means there are at least 44
sentences in the article. Hyphens are used not only to separate the compound modifier and the noun they modify. Hyphen also appears to indicate the score of
football match When Juventus beat Internazionale 2-1… or to indicate the length of season in football …coach in disastrous 2010-11 season….
b. “Making dreams come true”
No. Punctuation
Number of Punctuation 1
Period . 67
2 Comma ,
76 3
Question mark ? 4
Quotation mark “…” 15
5 Dash –
4 6
Hyphen - 26
Table 5: The number of punctuations in the article “Making dreams come
true” There are 67 periods used in the article. This means there are at least 67
sentences in the article. Hyphens are used again, not only to separate the compound modifier and the noun they modify in this article. Hyphen also appears
to indicate the score of football match Two 1-0 defeats, home and…. Quotation marks here are not only used to indicate direct quote from someone. Quotation
marks are used once to indicate a nickname for a football club. …the “Miners”
were relegated….
30 c.
“Blue Moon rising” No.
Punctuation Number of Punctuation
1 Period .
81 2
Comma , 65
3 Question mark ?
4 4
Quotation mark “…” 18
5 Dash –
7 6
Hyphen - 20
Table 6: The number of punctuations in the article “Blue moon rising”
There are 81 periods used in the article. This means there are at least 81 sentences in the article. Hyphens are used again, not only to separate the
compound modifier and the noun they modify in this article. Hyphen also appears to indicate the score of football match … Premier League this season with 6-1
win away…. Another usage of hyphen in this article is in the name of football club, which is Paris Saint-Germain.
2. Lexical Features in the article