A METAFUNCTIONS ANALYSIS OF IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM IN THE ARTICLE ???A HUMAN RIGHTS MEMORIAL: JOKOWI AND THE SORCERER???S STONE???
A METAFUNCTIONS ANALYSIS OF IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM IN THE ARTICLE ???A HUMAN RIGHTS MEMORIAL: JOKOWI AND THE SORCERER???S STONE???
Author : PIKIR WISNU WIJAYANTO Published on : INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Abstract
“This study aims to find the meaning of text through metafunctions analysis with identification systems in order to explore texts in detail from the perspectives of discourse semantics developed by James Martin and David Rose (2003). The data is taken from the ???Opinion Forum??? article of the Jakarta Post (a national English newspaper) published on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, entitled ???A Human Rights Memorial: Jokowi and the Sorcerer???s Stone??? written by Barikatul Hikmah. This study is qualitative and descriptive in nature to unfold the text under analysis and describe the realization of the interpersonal meanings found in the text by applying metafunction analysis with identification systems. The findings of this research show that there are around 13 resources used as introducing (presenting) and more than 19 resources used for tracking people. The article also uses possessive type as the most dominant for identifying people and things. The presuming type uses as the second dominant resources such as subject pronouns, object pronouns and the people???s names to be identified. The recovery of the identity of a presumed participant can be done in various ways depending on where the relevant information is (Martin and Rose, 2003). The types of reference, and where the types of reference refer to the text, can be summarized that the writer uses 6 anaphoras; 2 bridging, 3 cataphoric, 1 esophoric, 10 homophoric, and 1 exophoric as the reference type to recover the things which are presumed in the text.
Keywords: metafunction analysis, identification meaning, types, and functions”
