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Alifia, Crissyalfa Shevilla (2023) A contrastive analysis of interpersonal metafunction in the US and the UK National Geographic's COVID-19 related online articles. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
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Abstract
The researcher analyzed the interpersonal metafunction of online articles related to COVID-19 in the US and UK National Geographic. This study aims to examine the use of mood and modality in online articles that contain the same content but are published by two publishers from different countries. Therefore, the researcher answers the formulation of the problems in this study, namely: (1) what type of mood is dominantly used in the US and the UK National Geographic (2) what type of modality is dominantly used in the US and the UK National Geographic. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach to find out how interpersonal metafunctions exist in online articles in the US and UK National Geographic. Furthermore, this study used the theory of interpersonal metafunction from Halliday and Matthiessen (2014). The research data was taken from the US and UK National Geographic sites. The researcher took 4 online articles from both the US and UK National Geographic with a time span from January 2021 to May 2021. This study discovered that the dominant type of mood is declarative, while the dominant type of modality is probability. The use of declaratives in news serves to provide factual and accurate information. The use of probability in the news shows the possibility of the truth of the sentence. The researcher also found significant differences in mood types in the results of this study. The use of interrogatives is more commonly found in the UK’s National Geographic where the news writers invite readers to be able to determine their attitude towards the information conveyed in the news. Meanwhile, for the type of modality, the US and UK National Geographic show the differences in the use of probability and obligation. The UK National Geographic is more focused on using the obligation as a response to the opening of international flights. Meanwhile, the US National Geographic reveals more probability, especially uncertainty. The use of probability focuses on ensuring that all the US citizens have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Linguistik | ||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Contrastive analysis; interpersonal metafunction; covid 19; articles | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris | ||||||||||||
| Depositing User: | Crissyalfa Shevilla Alifia | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2023 03:53 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 03:53 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/63594 |
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