TEXTUAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS IN CORONA VIRUS NEWS

Abstract

Muthi’ah, Nurul. 1602050166.Textual Function Analysis in Corona Virus News. Skripsi. English Department of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah North Sumatera. Medan. 2021. This study discussed the textual function analysis in corona virus news. This study focused on ideational theme. Ideational theme consist of unmarked and marked theme. This research was descriptive qualitative research by Miles and Huberman, since the data were provided descriptively. The purposed of this study to find out types of theme and rheme that used in the news text, to find out the most dominant types of theme and rheme in the news text and how the theme and rheme realized in the news text. The news was taken from BBC News official website entitled “Covid : what is happening to schools?”. According to the result of this study was unmarked theme as the most dominant theme that frequently appeared in the news article. The result has proved that unmarked theme is used in the news text. It means that in accordance with the purpose of this study. The findings showed that the type of ideational theme that frequently apply is unmarked theme. It has 45 themes or 88,2% appear in that news article.