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Jurnal Serunai Ilmu Pendidikan Vol.5, No.2, Desember 2019 e-ISSN 2621 - 2676

PARTS OF SPEECH ANALYSIS APPEARED ON HEADLINES NEWSPAPER

1 Rakhmat Wahyudin Sagala, 2 Tri Indah Rezeki,

1Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara [email protected]

2STKIP Budidaya Binjai [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Newspaper is one kind of mass media plays a very important role in organizing public opinion. aim of this study is to analyze the use of parts of speech appeared on headlines of The Jakarta Post Newspaper. Descriptive qualitative research was applied in this study and collected the data from the words on headlines The Jakarta Post Newspaper on November 23rd, 2019 which contain parts of speech. Based on the data result, The Jakarta Post has 11 news headlines. Total words count is 71. , and Prepositions were frequently used as compared to other parts of speech. consist of 43 words, Verbs consists of 12 words, Prepositions consist of 10 words, consist of 3 words, consist of 2 words, consists of 1 word and there were no and found in the headlines of The Jakarta Post newspaper.

Keywords: Parts of speech; Headlines; Newspaper

I. INTRODUCTION assigned to the same Because of is one of important generally display similar syntactic behavior. thing in human society’s life to Croft (2000) explains that Parts of Speech communicate each other (Sagala, 2019), we play similar roles within the grammatical should consider pack of words that partition structure of sentences and sometimes grammatical masters. These gatherings are similar morphology in that they undergo called Parts of Speech. In a language, Parts for similar properties. Commonly, of Speech are an established terminology there are eight parts of speech namely noun, used for the major classes of words that are , , , pronoun, grammatically distinguished. Every preposition, conjunction, interjection. language has their own classification in A noun is a word used to name a person, which they define Parts of Speech. It varies place, or thing. According to their kinds, from one language to another. These English nouns can be categorized into 2 differences between lead to the kinds, i.e. (1) proper, and (2) common division basis on both kind and number. nouns which are divided into (a) abstract, (b) individual, and (c) collective nouns. A In , a part of speech noun which indicates one only, it is a is a category of words (or, more generally, singular noun. When a noun indicates more of lexical items) that have similar than one, it is plural noun. grammatical properties. Words that are 155

Jurnal Serunai Ilmu Pendidikan Vol.5, No.2, Desember 2019 e-ISSN 2621 - 2676

Verb is the main word in the of lesser words, it plays a discreet important a sentence that expresses action or being. role in news report. (Zhijun,1998). An adjective modifies a noun or a A headline must possess a legitimate pronoun and also tells the quality of a noun sentence construction comprising of a or a pronoun such as beautiful, handsome, and a respective verb as per the etc. changes in situation; generally features do An adverb is the one which modifies not think of helpers, conjunctions, articles, verbs, adjective or another adverb such as or conjunctions. It characterizes clearly, slowly, etc. the lone lexical instead of grammatical Pronouns replaces noun at various function. The most extensive purpose positions and for various reasons. Personal behind that is the space particularly given pronouns are (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, for every feature and the settling issue of the me, him, her, us, and them) which shows best words may approach. contrasts of person, gender, number, and Attractive front-page headlines force the case. buyers to purchase that newspaper. A preposition is a word that shows the Moreover, enchanting the buyers to read the relationship between a noun and some other news stories by putting forward the word in the sentence such as up, of, since, appealing stories as every headline narrates etc. the main news and the basic details, which A conjunction is another important permit the readers to seek positivity from element of parts of speech. Conjunctions are important ideas even when they go through connectors of the clauses or phrases to the page. render a sense to a sentence or serve the Every news story has some components purpose of coordinating words in the clauses and among all headlines is the most such as and, but, or, etc. essential one. Interjection is a word or words that show The purpose of the headline is to provoke feeling. If it stands alone, it is followed by reader’s attention. It also makes them read an exclamation point. If it begins a sentence, the complete . Another purpose of a it is set off by a comma. headline is to sell the news by grabbing the A paper headline is repeatedly the only attention of its reader. Headlines give a thing that readers look forward to at the first direction to the reader as it provides them a place in a newspaper, or at least, it is the framework for the reading process. most prominent thing that majority keeps According to Fries, reader starts to read the focus on. Between all the media platforms, text of the article with the headline. After newspaper has the most prolonged history, reading the text he connects the text with the arising from the ceremonial newspaper in headline and will do every possible thing to China (Liu Lu, 2002). The time when it was connect it to the headline. published, there had been many studies According to LaRocque (2003), the related news. As newspapers are medium of maker of the headlines knows well what judgement, the announcement when the they want but there are other difficulties reporter puts into the current dated paper; which need to be resolved before making a exercises an impact on public judgements in headline such as space or their own abilities a larger version. The reason behind is that which include vocabulary, creativity, the headlines provide the most important knowledge of the language etc.). and priceless piece of fact to the reader in Headlines are different than the rest of the newspaper. Its language makes it

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Jurnal Serunai Ilmu Pendidikan Vol.5, No.2, Desember 2019 e-ISSN 2621 - 2676 different among all. Mardh (1980) illustrates that a headline should be short enough that a. Data Analysis of Parts of Speech it is readable and long enough that it specifies all the important fact and figures. Croft (2000) divided eight parts of speech Moreover, the length of a heading should namely noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, not be more than seven words. preposition, conjunction, interjection. The data The Jakarta Post is a daily English analysis of parts of speech on headlines of The language newspaper in Indonesia. The paper Jakarta Post can be seen in table 3.1. is owned by PT Niskala Media Tenggara and based at the nation's capital, Jakarta. Table 1. Data Analysis of Parts of Speech The Jakarta Post also features an online No Parts of Words Amount edition and a weekend magazine Speech supplement called J+. The newspaper is 1. Noun Climate, change, 43 targeted at foreigners and educated drought, PSSI, Indonesians, although the middle-class assault, KL, Indonesian readership has increased. stadium, commentary, Because of the most important parts of Bahtiar Efendy, speech give the significant content to a Muslim, public, message in newspaper, are generally called intellectual, content words, the researchers are interested champion, to conduct a study about parts of speech democracy, lack, sex, education, analysis appeared on headlines of The risk, HIV, Ahok, Jakarta Post newspaper. Pertamina, President, commissioner, II. METHOD Bandung, chickens, gadgets, Descriptive qualitative research was applied migrant, worker, in this study. Descriptive qualitative research protection, activists, involves collecting data in order to test government, hypothesis or to answer the question concerning Frozen 2, parents, the current status of the subject of the study (Gay kids, travel, and Airisian, 2000). Descriptive qualitative moments, demand, photography, research is a design to obtain information LRT, Jakarta, concern the current status phenomena. It is commercial, directed toward determining the nature of a operations, December situation as it exist at the time of the study (Ary, 2. Verb Brings, probes, 12 2006). In qualitative research, the researcher is raises, appointed, an actor to collect the data (Moleong, 2011). turns, get off, The data of this study was the headlines of should, begin, tell, rd enchants, The Jakarta Post newspaper on November 23 immortalize, start 2019. It has 11 news headlines and the total word 3. Adjective Worst, precious 2 count is 71 words. 4. Adverb 2015, outside, at 3 home 5. Pronoun - III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION 6. Preposition Since, of (3), to 10

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Research in Education. Canada, Based on the data analysis, it can be seen that Thomshon Wodswort, there are five parts of speech used on the headline of The Jakarta Post newspaper on Croft, W. 2000. Parts of speech as language November 23rd 2019 namely nouns consist of 43 universals and as language-particular categories. Empirical Approaches to words, verbs consist of 12 words, adjectives Language Typology consists of 2 words, adverbs consist of 3 words, prepositions consist of 10 words, conjunction LaRocque, P. 2003. Heads you win: An Easy consists of 1 word. While pronoun and Guide to Better Headline and Caption interjection were not found on the headline news. Writing. Marion Street Press, Inc.

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