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Evening and both were taken from online newspapers. Meanwhile, the data of this research are in the form of lexicogrammar, cohesion, genre and their text structure
of the two news texts within the frame of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
C. Sample and Sampling Technique
Sample is a part of representative of population that will be investigated Arikunto, 1998: 117. In addition, sample is a part of population that becomes a
direct object research and sample should represent the whole population Subroto, 1992: 32. In this research, a total sampling was employed. The technique was
used since the researcher took and analyzed all the clauses provided by the source of data namely the news texts of The Jakarta Post and London Evening Standard.
D. Research Procedure
Research procedure refers to steps of the research taken by the researcher in conducting the research. This research is arranged as follows:
1. Collecting both news texts taken from internet.
2. Reading and taking all clauses from the two texts.
3. Analyzing the data consisting of contextual configuration, lexicogrammar,
cohesion, genre and the text stucture. 4.
Making interpretation of the data analysis covering status, contact, and affect realized by the lexicogrammar, cohesion, genre and the text structure.
5. Making the discussion by comparing the two interpretation of the data
analysis to find out the similarities and differences 6.
Drawing conclusion and giving recommendation.
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E. Technique of Collecting Data
In this research, the researcher applied library technique continued by observing and recording technique to collect the data. Subroto describes that a
library technique or in his book called “Teknik Pustaka” is a technique that collects written sources 1992: 42. The written sources here include magazine,
book, newspaper, literary work, internet, etc. The data of this research were taken from online newspaper published by
www.thejakartapost.com accessed on April 4
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2010 at 07.20 PM and www.thisislondon.co.uk accessed on April 3
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2010 at 03.19 PM.
The next techniques are observing and recording technique. Those techniques
are called “teknik simak dan catat” Subroto, 1992: 41. Teknik simak refers to the way of observing the use of language while teknik catat is a
technique of noting toward the data that are suitable with the purpose of the research. After collecting the data by the library technique, the researcher
continued to observe the language used in both news texts and then the researcher noted and explored the data in terms of lexicogrammar, cohesion, genre and the
text structure.
F. Procedure of Data Analysis
