Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur (2019) Peer Review: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Verbs In News Section of The Jakarta Post: How Frequency is related to Text Characteristics. UNIB Press, Bengkulu.
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Abstract
Verb is one of the most important word classes in linguistic
construction due to its prominent role and dynamic nature.
Interestingly, the use of verbs in different linguistic contexts might be
various because the context can limit or allow certain verbs to occur
more frequently than other verbs. It is compelling to study further the
use of verbs in a particular linguistic context. This paper thus aims at
examining the use of verbs in news section in The Jakarta Post to figure
out the frequency of verbs and how it relates to the characteristics of
news text. This study compiled The Jakarta Post corpus comprising news
articles belong to the category of hard news from October to December
2018 with total size of 21.682 words. The verb types used in this study
refer to those compiled by Scheibmann (combining Halliday‘s verb
taxonomy and Dixon‘s verb types). Based on the analysis, it is obvious
that verbal type is the most frequent verb type, followed by material and
existential. As for the least frequent ones, there are corporeal and
perception/relational types. It is plausible that verbal type occupies the
most frequent position because the nature of news text is to deliver
information and thus it needs to use verbal verbs quite often. Likewise,
material verb is frequent because it states concrete action and existential
verb denotes existence; both are vital in constructing news text.
Meanwhile, corporeal and perception/relational types are least frequent
because corporeal deals with bodily gestures actions and
perception/relational shows subjectivity. Both verb types are rather
insignificant concepts in news writing. Based on the results of analysis,
it is obvious that there is a firm relation between frequency of verbs
used in news text and the characteristics of the text: linguistic units that
are not in accordance with the function of the text are not really needed
and thus infrequently used.
| Item Type: | Other |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisi / Prodi: | Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan) > S1-English Education (S1-Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Ikmi Nur Oktavianti |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2021 01:33 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2021 01:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/27005 |
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