Abstract:
This research deals with reference used in politician response to New
Zealand’s Tragedy. The data were analyzed based on three types of
reference based on Halliday theory. The objectives of this study were to
descibe the dominant types that found in Politician Response and to
analyze how is process of reference used in Politician Response to New
Zealand’s Trageedy. Descriptive qualitative was used to analyze the data.
The result showed that three types of reference found in politician
response. The total number of reference found in politician response was
818. The percentage of Personal Reference was 383 (46.82%),
Demonstrative Reference was 375 (45.84%), and comparative reference
was 60 (7.34%). Basically this research revealed that personal refernces
are most dominant types used in politician response. followed by
demonstrative reference and the least was comparative reference. The
discussion of the process of reference is important to find out the real
meaning of what was said in order to avoid any kind of misunderstanding
and misinterpretation
