The types of adjective usage in politics and soccer news in the Jakarta Post newspaper

Hanifah, Nurul (2013) The types of adjective usage in politics and soccer news in the Jakarta Post newspaper. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

English as an International language or a foreign language especially for Indonesian people is very important to master, in order to Indonesian can interact with people all over the world. However, to understand English is very difficult because the words of English very complex. By doing this research, the researcher intends to identify the types of adjectives used in the Jakarta Post newspaper and to find out the most used types of adjective in politics and soccer in the Jakarta Post Newspaper. In this research, the researcher used the theories especially about adjective. The grand theories used in this research are based on Gabriele Stobbe described about the types of adjective consists of seven types namely article adjective consists of two that are (type indefinite article adjective and definite article adjective), Possessive adjective, demonstrative adjective, interrogative adjective, quantitative adjective, numerical adjective and descriptive adjective. To analyze the data, the researcher used descriptive method. This research employed descriptive method to identify the types of adjective and to find out the most used adjective types the data, the data used in this research are taken from the Jakarta Post Newspaper published in November 2, 2012. In order to make it easy to account the most type of adjective used in politics and soccer news, the researcher used the statistical formula. The researcher found that types of adjectives used in politics news are definite adjective (the), indefinite article (a, and an), descriptive adjective (new, Indonesian and high), numerical adjective (two and one), possessive adjective (his, and your), quantitative adjective (more), with descriptive adjective as the most types of adjective used (38,3%). Meanwhile in soccer news types of adjectives that used are definite article (the) indefinite adjective (a and an), descriptive adjective (comfortable and young), numerical adjective (second and 90th), possessive adjective (his and‘s), quantitative adjective (a lot of) and demonstrative adjective (this), with descriptive adjective as the most type of adjective used (30%). In a conclusion, there are several types of adjectives in politics and soccer news. Besides, it is found that descriptive adjective is the most used adjective type in politics and soccer news.

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