Abstract:
This study dealt with the analysis of Lexical Density Analysis and Its Function in
BBC News. The objectives of this study is the BBC News online newspapers.
These online newspapers were documented in April until May 2019 that consist 8
newspapers from 4 genre news . In this study, the researcher downloaded reading
materials online newspapers found in the BBC News as the data. Descriptive
qualitative method was used in this study. Lexical Density level as follows: : in
text one was 0.40. in text two was 0.61. in text three was 0.63. in text four was
0.58. in text five was 0.61. in text six was 0.55. in text seven was 0.46. in text
eight was 0.46. The lexical density level of the text had different level which is
the reading texts had five text that content carrying lexical items dominant and
three non content carrying lexical items. Suggestions for the students in the
English department to learn more and more and understand more about the lexical
density. From the analysis, researcher found that there were five texts from 8 texts
that have dominant content carrying lexical item than non-content carrying lexical
item.
