MODALITY USED BY BADMINTON’S COMMENTATORS IN
FINAL ALL ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIP 2016
A THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for The Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
HESTINAWATI BR ZALUKU
Registration Number : 2123220019
:
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
i ABSTRACT
Zalukhu, Hestinawati. 2123220019, Modality Used by Badminton’s Commentators in Final All England Championship 2016. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This study was about the Modality Used by Badminton’s Commentators in Final All England Champioship 2016. There were three objectives in this study. First was to identify the types of modality spoken by the badminton’s commentators. Second was find the dominant type of the modality. The third was to intepret the
functions of the modality used by the badminton’s commentators. Descriptive qualitative was used in this study. The data were taken from clauses delivered by
the badminton’s commentators in Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles group in
Final All England Championship 2016. The data of this study were analyzed by using six steps; segmenting, identifying, classifying, calculating, finding, and interpreting.There were 148 modalities found in 145 clauses in Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles group. These modalities comprised of probability (61,9%), usuality (3,4%), obligation (21%), andinclination (13,6%). Probability was the most dominant type used by the badminton’s commentators. It was found that the probability use to give the prediction of many possibilities of many situations during the match and obligation use to strengthen the suggestion of the
badminton’s commentators. While the inclination use to describe the willingness of the players and usuality showed a certain frequency.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The greatest thanks to the Almighty God for the blessing and strength given to the writer to complete her thesis as the partial of fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Sarjana Sastra at English and Literature Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis is not merely her own work but she has also been greatly improved by the willing cooperation and assistance of a number of people in the process of accomplishment. Therefore, the writer would like to express her deep gratitude to:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., the Rector of State University of
Medan
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and
Arts, State University of Medan
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English and Literature
Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English and Literature Department as well as Thesis Examiner.
Syamsul Bahri, S.S., M.Hum., as the Head of English Literature Program
and Nora Ronita Dewi, S.Pd., S.S., M.Hum, the Head of English Education Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan
Dr. Rahmah, M.Hum., the first Thesis Advisor who has guided me and
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Dra. Sortha Silitonga, M.Pd., the second Thesis Advisor and also as the
Academic Advisor who gives her constructive criticisms and assistances during completing this research
Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M.Pd., as the Thesis Examiner.
All Lecturers of English and Literature Department, Faculty of
Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
Eis Sri Wahyuni, M.Pd., the Administration Staff of English Department
for helping the writer in preparing all the fulfillment in conducting this thesis
My beloved parents, Y. Zalukhu and U. Sitompul, for their love and patience and keep support me in finishing this thesis.
My sisters and brother, Kenny Zalukhu, Very Zalukhu and Gwen
Zalukhu, who give their support for her in the good and bad times.
Her friends in English Literature A 2012. Susiyanti Siregar, Rina
Tobing, Sadariah and all her friends in English Literature A and B who
can’t be mentioned one by one for their support
Medan, 23 July 2016 The writer
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List of Appendices ... viii
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ... 1
A. The Background of The Study ... 1
B. The Problems of The Study... 4
C. The Scopes of The Study ... 5
D. The Objectives of The Study... 5
E. The Significances of The Study ... 5
CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE ... 7
A. Theoretical Framework ... 7
1. Systemic Functional Linguistics ... 7
2. Metafunctions ... 8
3. Interpersonal Functions ... 9
4. Modality ... 11
a. Definitions of Modality ... 11
b. Types of Modality ... 12
1) Modalization ... 12
2) Modulation ... 14
c. Orietation of Modality ... 16
d. Value of Modality ... 17
5. Comment ... 19
6. Badminton ... 19
a. The History of Badminton ... 19
b. The Development of Badminton in Indonesia ... 19
c. Kinds of Badminton Tournament ... 20
d. All England Championship 2016 ... 21
e. Kinds of Sports Commentator ... 21
1) Main Commentator ... 21
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3) Sideline Reporter ... 22
4) Sports Presenter ... 22
5) Sportcaster ... 22
f. The role of Badminton’s Commentator ... 23
B. Relevant Studies ... 24
C. Conceptual Framework ... 24
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 26
A. Research Design ... 26
B. Source of Data ... 26
C. Techniques of Data Collection ... 26
D. Techniques of Data Analysis ... 27
CHAPTER IV. DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 28
A. Data ... 28
B. Data Analysis ... 32
C. Research Finding ... 39
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 43
A. Conclusions ... 43
B. Suggestions ... 43
REFERENCES ... 45
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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 2.1 ... 13
Table 2.2 ... 13
Table 2.3 ... 17
Table 2.4 ... 18
Table 2.5 ... 18
Table 4.1 ... 28
Table 4.2 ... 30
Table 4.3 ... 32
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 2.1 ... 13
Figure 2.2 ... 15
Figure 2.3 ... 16
Figure 2.4 ... 17
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LIST OF APPENDICES
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Appendix A ... 47
Appendix B ... 53
Appendix C ... 67
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
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The Background of The StudyA communication occurs between two people, one making sounds or hand movements which is called as the speaker and the other as the hearer. A communication is succesful if the idea that the hearer get is the same as what the speaker intended the hearer to get. In general the purpose of the communication itself is to transform the information or message.
A communication by using gesture or other forms of bodily movement is called as a non verbal communication (Jackson, 1990:128). While the term of verbal communication uses words or language. Language is an explicit, versatile and extendable means of communicating messages. Languange itself as a tool of verbal communication plays an important role in interaction of an individual to others in society. Not only in the direct way but in this era of technology, language also taking a crucial position such as in television broadcast. Television now is the medium for modern people to getting the latest information. This information comes from many area such as politics, economics, social , culture, sport and etc.
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action occurs. A sport commentator is very important in a live sport event because it is light the match. So in this situation, the language used by the commentator is very important because it can gives a positive or negative meanings for the viewers about the match. In giving the statements, the commentators use modality which is analyzed in this study from the linguistics perspective.
Language itself is learnt scientifically in the field of linguistics, and the modern approach of which is called Systemic Functional Linguistics, also known as Functional Grammar, found by MAK Halliday (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004: 40).
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Almost similar, modality in statement based on article abstract research is defined defined as the grammaticalisation of speaker’s attitude and opinions. It is
characterised to convey speaker’s or writer’s involvement in the propositional
content of a given utterance ( Olaniyan and Adeniji, 2015). For data, they used objective statements segments of three hundred abstracts of research articles obtained from the internet and purposively selected were analysed using insights from the linguistic tool of modality. It is found four categories of modal auxiliaries namely; possibility, necessity, prediction and permission modals. Possibility modals are used in stating analytical scope and research goal in the abstracts; necessity modals are employed in stating analytical scope, presenting argument, seeking permission and/or making polite request; and prediction
models are used in stating the researchers’ research missions in predictive form.
A liitle bit different in the way of expressing the opinion, modality used by the debaters is to emphasize the subjectivity of their points of view so as to make
one’s statement more assertive (Yuyun, 2010). Eventhough this study doesn’t has the same objects but the arguments spoken by the debaters are also spontaneous just like the comment delivered by a live sport event’s commentator.
There are eight linguistics features in the comment delivered by football commentators, they are simpilification, word orders, prefaces and tags, result expressions, tense, modality, modifiers, and metaphors (Humpolik, 2014).
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commentar spesifically but this study has given a significant contribution for the researcher .
Based on two previous study, there’s a same defintion between argument and comment. In an argument the speaker presents a point of view and attempts to persuade others of the validity of his or her opinion (Feez & Joyce, 1998:148). In another hand, commentary is generally understood as a spoken account of the speaker’s opinion in a event which are actually taking place (Crystal and Davy, 1969). So the argument and the comment have taking the same definition of
someone opinion’s of an issue or an event.
Based on the explanation above, then writer choose the topic of modality
used by the badminton’s commentators because eventhough there were a lot of study about modality conducted by the previous researchers, but the information were not spesific especially for the language use in sport. The writer also taking the Final All England Champonship 2016 as the data because the event was the prestigious event in the badminton. By conducted the this study, the role of language can be clearly seen in ths sport area, precisely in the topic of modality.
B. The Problems of The Study
The problems of this study were elaborated as follows :
1. Which types of modality are used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016 ?
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3. How are the functions of modality used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016 interpreted ?
C. The Scopes of The Study
The scopes of the study were limited on the types of modality and the functions of each type of modality used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016. Every statements delivered by the commentators is segmented into clauses. These clauses then identified which contain modality.
D. The Objectives of The Study
The objectives of this study include as follows
1. To find out the types of modality used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016.
2. To find out the dominant type of modality used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016.
3. To interpret the functions of modality used by badminton’s commentators in Final All England Championship 2016.
E. The Significances of The Study
This research was expected to have some significance for students and further researchers. The significances of this study were elaborated as follows
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will be capable to choose the appropriate language style for communication, depend on the context.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After analyzing the modality used by badminton’s commentators in All England Championship 2016, the conclusions were presented as follows:
1. There were four types of modality which exist in the statements delivered
by the badminton’s commentators, namely probability, usuality,
obligation and inclination.
2. The most dominant type of modality used by badminton’s commentators was probability with 61,9%.
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modality itself when conducting similar research. Beside that, the next researcher can expanded the field from another discipline such as economic, politics and so on.
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