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4.15. 3 Text Structure The generic structure of the text is Newsworthy events
Background events Sources.
Newsworthy events occur in the beginning of the text paragraph 1. They begin with A slight earthquake jolted the Japanese capital last
night but authorities said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Background events occur in second and third paragraph. They elaborated what happened and explain how the incident was. We may see
it in sentence A spokesman for the Japan meteorological agency said, “ An earth tremor was … etc and sentence The earth tremor struck shortly
after midnight Tokyo time Sources stage occurs in last paragraph. They begin with sentences
Residents of central Tokyo said the tremor was the strongest in several months in the capital.
4.15.4 Significant Lexico - grammatical Features
The text focuses on information about an earthquake which jolted the Japanese capital. The earth tremor did not cause casualties or damage.
It struck shortly after midnight Tokyo time. The processes that are seen in the text are : Material process 3,
Verbal Process 3, Relational Process 3. The examples of process in the text are :
Material Process
A slight earthquake jolted the Japenese capital last night An earth tremor was registered in Tokyo
The earth tremor struck shortly after midnight Tokyo time
Verbal process :
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But authorities said A spokesman for the Japan meteorological said
Resident of central Tokyo said
Relational Process :
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage But there are no reports of casualties or damage
The tremor was the strongest in several months in the capital The tenses that occurs in text are Past tense that occurs in 8 clauses
and present tense that occurs in 1 clauses. Past tense becomes the dominant one.
Past Tense :
A slight earthquake jolted the Japanese capital last night An earth tremor was registered in Tokyo
The earth tremor struck shortly after midnight Tokyo time But authorities said
A spokesman for the Japan meteorological said Residents of central Tokyo said
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage The tremor was the strongest in several months in the capital
Present Tense :
But there are no reports of casualties or damage Circumstances support the text. They are :
A slight earthquake jolted the Japanese capital last night An earth tremor was registered in Tokyo
The earth tremor struck shortly after midnight Tokyo time
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Residents of central Tokyo said the tremor was the strongest in several months in the capital
Based on the analysis above the text is essays of newsworthy because the communicative purpose is to inform the readers about the earthquake
which jolted the Japanese Capital and the generic structure of the text conforms with the generic structure of News Item text, namely
Newsworthy Event s Background Events Sources. Besides that the processes that occur in the text are material process, verbal process, and
relational process. The domination of past tense supported the intention that the text is a news item, as well as circumstances.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion
From 15 texts that are anlyzed in chapter IV, it can be concluded that the short functional texts and essays that occur in the book are : condolences
statement, post card , short e-mail, letter of condolence, set of instructions in a hotel , short letter, announcement of missing, campaign flyer, guide speech
during a trip , invitation, congratulation letter, congratulation card, forward of booklet, and news report 2. The short functional texts occur in
texts1,4,5,7,8,10,11and 12. Essays occur in texts 2,3,6,9,13, 14 and 15 The communicative purpose of the SFT varies according to the type of
the text. I found from 8 SFT, 2 of them express symphathy condolences .They are text 1and 4. One text text 5give instruction, text 7 inform the
missing, text 8 persuade to vote a chairman, text 10 invite to come to the parthy text 11 and 12 express congratulation . From 7 essays I found 2
texts,namely text 2 and 3 tell experience, 3 texts 6,9,13 describe people or things that is important to know by readers, last 2 texts give information about
event of the day which are considered important. Each text consist of schematic structure according to the genre of text.
There are 3 texts that match to schematic structure of genre proposed by Gerot and Wignell 1995, namely : text 13, 14 and 15. On the other hand,
there are many texts that have modified schematic structure or combinations