AN ANALYSIS OF EXPOSITION DISCOURSE IN SCHOOL
ZONE COLUMN OF COOL AND SMART MAGAZINE
Research Paper
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
by: WULANDARI
A320 050 165
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
As social creature, human beings always need to communicate with others. Communication represents the vital and elementary social process in human life. Communication is said to be elementary, because each human being uses it to reach the targets, and to be able to fulfill the requirements. While communication is said vital, because people cannot obviate themselves from relating to others. According to Tondowidjojo (1985: 4), communication is interpreted as submitting information, idea, and certain attitude from someone to others. There are assorted ways of communication used in society one of them is mass communication.
In popular usage, the term mass communication generates an image about television, radio, newspaper, magazine, etc. Reaching mass communication, in short scope, usually the forwarding is such as in meeting forum, or lecturing in class. In the long distance, the delivering information utilize equipments which are called mass media such as electronic media (TV, radio) and print media (magazine).
Written in the Collins Concise dictionary, magazine is a periodic paperback publication containing articles, fictions, photographs, etc (McLaughlin, 2003: 1). There are some characteristic s of magazine. The first point refers to the frequency. Magazine is issued in regular intervals such as
weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or quarterly. The next reference is to the material form of magazine. Paperback is a term used to point type of book rather than a magazine. Now, the quality of the material magazine can vary. For example, weekly magazine is made from cheaper quality paper, and monthly magazine is higher quality. It often uses glossy paper. The quality of the paper can influence on the magazine connotation. Connotation is an association of concept has for the reader, such as glossy paper connotes sophistication and glamour. The last reference relates to the original meaning of magazine ‘storehouse of information’.
Cool and Smart magazine (C n S) is English teen magazine. It is published by Pusat Penerbitan Lia, Jakarta which is issued monthly. One of the contents of C n S magazine is u ought to know column. In the column, there are subs-columns such as school zone column. School Zone column contains the information about school whether it is senior high school, vocational high school, or university especially in Jakarta. At this column, the readers obtain the information about its existence, facilities and even activities exist in the school.
Exposition is a kind of discourse based on the target of communication. The term discourse has wide meaning because of the difference scope and science discipline. In linguistics study, discourse shows the unity of language, which is generally bigger than sentence whether sent verbally or writtenly. In accordance with the statement, in Collins Concise English dictionary (cited in Eriyanto, 2006:1), dis course has three meanings. First, discourse is verbal communication, utterance, and conversation. Second, discourse is a formal treatment from subject in utterance or article. Third, discourse is a unit of text used by linguist to analyse set of language.
As a text, discourse is not only sequence of sentences which do not have humanity tying, but also there is situation which makes sentence becoming a text. The study of discourse in linguistics represents reaction to the linguistic study which only checks language aspect just on sentence or word.
In this paper, the accurate matters are types of exposition patterns and the elements of exposition discourse on C n S magazine, especially at School Zone column. The reason makes the researcher interests in conducting this research, because now people are aware that communication determines the aspect of human life. In this case, especially the current information of mass media is central enough. Considering the big and streng influence of mass media, hence people can exploit and use efficiently for the deve lopment purpose. It specially focuses on the young generations development who have great responsible.
this analysis can motivate the readers to develop their talents in writing or to make English magazine which is dedicated to educate its reader.
B. Previous Study
The study related to this research has been conducted by Sri Kuswandari (2007), entitled An Analysis Of Narrative Discourse Of The Language Used In Different Fond Different Fish Column Of Kangguru Magazine. In her research, she found out the aspect of narrative structure and the linguistic element of narrative discourse which focused on cohesion and coherence. The data were taken using technique of documentation. The data source was Kangguru magazine.
The other researcher is Sri Handayani (2007). She analysed about A Discourse Analysis of Your Letter in the Jakarta Post Newspaper. While in this research, the researcher analyses the patterns and elements of exposition discourse in School Zone column of Cool and Smart magazine.
C. Problem Statement
Based on the background above, the problem statements can be formulated as follows:
1. What are the types of exposition patterns used in School Zone column of C n S magazine?
D. Objective of the Study
In relation to the above problem statements, the objectives of the study are:
1. to describe the types of exposition patterns used in School Zone column of C n S magazine.
2. to describe the elements exposition discourse in School Zone column of C n S magazine.
E. Limitation of the Study
This research analyses the patterns and elements of exposition discourse used in School Zone column of C n S magazine.
F. Benefit of the Study
The researcher hopes that her research on exposition in School Zone column of C n S magazine has some benefits, namely:
1. Academic Benefit
This study gives contribution to discourse study especia lly in exposition discourse.
2. Practical Benefit
a. The readers get more knowledge or information about discourse toward the exposition discourse.
G. Paper Organization
The organization of research is given in order to make the readers understand the content of the paper.
Chapter I is introduction, which consists of background of the study, previous study, problem statement, objective of the study, limitation of the study, benefit of the study, and organization of research paper.
Chapter II is the underlying theory. It deals with notion of discourse analysis, types of discourse, patterns of exposition discourse, and difference of discourse, text and context.
Chapter III is the research method. It consists of type of research, object of research, data and data source, method of data collection, and technique of data analysis.
Chapter IV is research result. In this chapter, the researcher presents the data analysis, the discussion of research findings.
