Economics & Commerce
DOI: 10.18510/hssr.2020.8135
Submitted: 2020-01-22
Published: 2020-01-22

REGISTER IN DISCUSSION GENRE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT THROUGH AFFECT EVALUATION

Linguistics Postgraduate Program Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia
Faculty of Cultural Science Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia
Faculty of Cultural Science Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia
Faculty of Cultural Science Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia
Affect Unhappiness in Misery Unhappiness in Antipathy Discussion Genre Register Israel and Palestine Conflict

Abstract

Purpose of the study: This data exploration is to seek the level and also the sort of unhappiness expression as a part of effect used in the news texts as a register included in discussion genre taken from 2 news texts of New York Times, 2 news texts of BBC, 1 news text of The Guardian 1, 1 news text of Bloomberg 1, 1 news text of USA Today and 1 news text of Fox News.

Methodology: The data is explored with the appraisal theory by using domain and component analysis. The effect measured is focused on unhappiness: misery and unhappiness: antipathy. The data source used here are international news which the text is written with discussion genre.

Main Findings: The findings report that the unhappiness: antipathy is much more found (43 data) than the unhappiness: misery (34 data). The data found are: 8 data of unhappiness: antipathy and 27 data of unhappiness: misery in New York Times 1; 5 data of unhappiness: antipathy and 2 unhappiness: misery in BBC 2; 2 data of unhappiness: antipathy and 2 data of unhappiness: misery in The Guardian; 6 data of unhappiness: antipathy in Bloomberg; 8 data of unhappiness: antipathy and 3 data of unhappiness: misery in BBC 1; 10 data of unhappiness: antipathy in USA Today; 2 data of unhappiness: antipathy in Fox News; 2 data of unhappiness: antipathy in New York Times 2.

Applications of this study: This data exploration is a benefit in the linguistic study to find the implicit meaning taken from the news texts.

Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of this exploration is investigating unhappiness value in texts with the genre of discussion which can construct a new theory of genre.

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