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4.7.1 Analysis of text 7 .
Register analysis of text 7 is as follow : Field : Announcement of missing about a three – year old girl. For
easy identification, the author describes the participant in detail, like in sentence line 2 she has short curly hair and
dimples when she smiles. Tenor : Publisher of newspaper or family of missing girl or police
station publications to everyone who read this announcement. Mode : The text is written to be read text with no element of spoken
language. It can be seen from its formal text. Also from sentece If you see who looks like in the picture please call ..
4.7.2 Communicative Purpose of the Text.
From the register I can determine that the communicative purpose of the text is that the author giving information about the missing of a
three year-old girl. In order that the reader could easily identify the girl, the author describes the features of the girl. The author also requests
response from readers if they see the girl. It can be seen from the sentence If you see a child who looks like the little girl in the picture,
please call the nearest Police Station or Mr Jeckyl at 9333-3333
4.7.3 Text Structure The generic structure of the text is Title Identification Description
Personal statement.
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The title of the text is missing. Identification occurs in first sentence Dian, a three – year old girl, has
been reported missing. Description occurs in 2 sentences. They are She has short curly hair and
dimpless when she smiles. She was last seen wearing a white shirt and red short.
In last part of the text we find personal statement. It occurs in sentence If you see a child who looks like the little girl in the picture, please call
the nearest Police Station or Mr Jeckyl at 9333-3333.
4.7.4 Significance Lexico – grammatical Feature
The text focuses on information about the missing of Dian, a three – year old girl. Dian becomes the subject of the information.
The text has 7 clauses. Relational processes attributive occur in 2 clauses.Verbal process occur in 1 clause. Mental processes occur in 2
clause. Behavioral process occurs in 1 clause. Material process occurs in 1 clause.The examples of process in the in the text are :
Relational Process attributive :
She has short curly hair A child who looks like
Verbal process : Dian, a three – yearold girl, has been reported missing.
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Mental Process :
She was last seen wearing a white shirt and red short If you see a child ..
Behavioral process : ... dimpless when she smiles
Material Process :
Please call the nearest Police Station ... The tenses that occur in the text are present perfect tense 1, past tense
2. Present tense 3.Present tense becomes the dominant one.
Present Perfect Tense :
Dian, a three – year old has been reported missing.
Past Tense :
She was last seen wearing a white shirt and red shorts.
Present Tense :
She has short curly hair and dimpless when smiles. If you see the child who looks like the litle girl in the picture,
Please call the nearst Police Station The text use adjectives and compound adjectives such as Dian, a
three – year old, She has short curly hair, dimpless. She was last seen wearing a white shirt and red short.
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Linking verb was also found in the text such as looks like. Besides that I found circumstances of time and place .
Circumstances of time occurs in sentence she was last seen wearing a white shirt and red short. Circumstances of place occurs in clause please
call the nearest Police Station or Mr Jeckyl at 9333-3333. Based on the analysis above , the text is modified description text
since the generic structure of the text is title identification description personal statemant. As we know that description text has
generic structure identification description as cited in Gerot and Wignell 1994: 208. The communicative purpose of the text is the
author giving information about the missing little girl. And ask readers who see the girl descibed in the information to report or call Police
Station or Mr. Jeckyl. From the language features we can say that the text is modified description text, because besides language features of
the txt : use of dominant relational process and mental process, use adjectives and compound adjectives phrase, linking verb, simple
present tense, the text is extended by personal statement.
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4.8.1. Analysis of text 8
