THE COMPARISON ON IDEATIONAL FUNCTION OF NEWS AND OPINION IN THE JAKARTA POST

Abstract

The experiential or ideational meta-function researchers used table classification in analyzing the transitivity system that readers could not understand it before they learned what the transitivity is. The research objective is comparing the analyzing of transitivity system between The Jakarta Post news category and The Jakarta Post opinion category. The research method is used qualitative research as well as phenomenological study. The research results revealed that the transitivity system observation answered how The Jakarta Post transitivity system comparison provided detailer analyzing in the transitivity system analysis through transitivity system observation, transitivity system elaboration and transitivity system comparison. The research concluded, the news text would be dominating by material process and the opinion text would be dominating by relational process.