Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2021)

Transitivity System in CNN Online News

Authors
Nurul Qomariah1, *, Amrin Saragih2, Sri Minda Murni3
1English Applied Linguistics Study Program, Postgraduate School Universitas Negeri Medan
2English Applied Linguistics Study Program, Postgraduate School Universitas Negeri Medan
3English Applied Linguistics Study Program, Postgraduate School Universitas Negeri Medan
*Corresponding author. Email: nurqo2111@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Nurul Qomariah
Available Online 22 November 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211110.124How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Transitivity system; online news; CNN
Abstract

This research aimed at investigating transitivity system elements in CNN Online News. This research was a descriptive qualitative. The data of this research were clauses consist of transitivity system in CNN Online News. The data source was ten of Covid-19 Online News taken from CNN Online News. The data were collected by applying the documentary technique and observation. In doing the analysis, there were some steps of qualitative were used. The steps were data collection, data condensation, data display, and data verification. The findings of the study showed that the types of transitivity system. There were three elements of transitivity systems namely process, participants and circumstances. CNN Online News realized all the types of process: Material process, Mental process, Relational process, Behavioral, Verbal process, and Existential process. Among the process, the dominant was Material Process. CNN Online News realized participants: Actor, Goal, Sayer, Carrier, Attribute, Verbiage, Senser, Phenomenon, Target, Existing, Existence, Behaver, Token, Value, Receiver, Behavior, and Range. The dominant was Actor. CNN Online News realized circumstances: Location, Cause, Manner, Accompaniment, Extent, Matter, Angle, and Role. The dominant was Location. From the findings, we could conclude that in CNN Online News mostly used material process to show the process of doing something physically or involved physical action during covid-19, the actor is obligatory element that represent the ‘doer’ of the process realized by the clause. The action involved the actor or the person doing something to face coronavirus, the writer of the news focused on the actor to show the efforts made by people involved in the text and the events happened. In CNN mostly used circumstance element of location to show the place and the time when the process or action happened.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
22 November 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.211110.124
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211110.124How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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AU  - Nurul Qomariah
AU  - Amrin Saragih
AU  - Sri Minda Murni
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/22
TI  - Transitivity System in CNN Online News
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 467
EP  - 471
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211110.124
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211110.124
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