A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF VERBS IN NEWS SECTION OF THE JAKARTA POST: HOW FREQUENCY IS RELATED TO TEXT CHARACTERISTICS

JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics & Literature) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 DOI:10.33369/joall.v4i2.7623

Ikmi Nur Oktavianti, Novi Retno Ardianti

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Verb is one of the most important word classes in linguistic construction due to its prominent role and dynamic nature. Interestingly, the use of verbs in different linguistic contexts might be various because the context can limit or allow certain verbs to occur more frequently than other verbs. It is compelling to study further the use of verbs in a particular linguistic context. This paper thus aims at examining the use of verbs in news section in The Jakarta Post to figure out the frequency of verbs and how it relates to the characteristics of news text. This study compiled The Jakarta Post corpus comprising news articles belong to the category of hard news from October to December 2018 with total size of 21.682 words. The verb types used in this study refer to those compiled by Scheibmann (combining Halliday’s verb taxonomy and Dixon’s verb types). Based on the analysis, it is obvious that verbal type is the most frequent verb type, followed by material and existential. As for the least frequent ones, there are corporeal and perception/relational types. It is plausible that verbal type occupies the most frequent position because the nature of news text is to deliver information and thus it needs to use verbal verbs quite often. Likewise, material verb is frequent because it states concrete action and existential verb denotes existence; both are vital in constructing news text. Meanwhile, corporeal and perception/relational types are least frequent because corporeal deals with bodily gestures actions and perception/relational shows subjectivity. Both verb types are rather insignificant concepts in news writing. Based on the results of analysis, it is obvious that there is a firm relation between frequency of verbs used in news text and the characteristics of the text: linguistic units that are not in accordance with the function of the text are not really needed and thus infrequently used.

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基于语料库的雅加达邮报新闻部分动词分析:频率与文本特征的关系

动词是语言结构中最重要的词类之一，具有突出的作用和动态性。有趣的是，动词在不同的语言语境中的使用可能是不同的，因为语境可以限制或允许某些动词比其他动词出现得更频繁。在特定的语言语境中进一步研究动词的用法是很有必要的。因此，本文旨在考察《雅加达邮报》新闻版中动词的使用情况，以了解动词的使用频率及其与新闻语篇特点的关系。本研究编制了《雅加达邮报》2018年10 - 12月硬新闻类新闻文章语料库，总字数为21.682字。本研究使用的动词类型参考了Scheibmann(结合了Halliday的动词分类法和Dixon的动词类型)编纂的动词类型。通过分析可以看出，动词类型中，动词性类型出现的频率最高，其次是物质类型和存在类型。至于最不常见的类型，有肉体类型和感知/关系类型。动词类型占据最常见的位置似乎是合理的，因为新闻文本的本质是传递信息，因此需要经常使用动词。同样，物质动词频繁出现是因为它陈述了具体的动作，存在动词表示存在;二者在构建新闻文本中都是至关重要的。同时，身体类型和感知/关系类型是最不常见的，因为身体类型处理身体的手势，动作和感知/关系显示主观性。这两种动词类型在新闻写作中都是无关紧要的概念。从分析结果可以看出，新闻语篇中动词的使用频率与语篇的特点有着密切的关系，不符合语篇功能的语言单位实际上是不需要的，因此很少使用。

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