Analysis of News Item Text Found In “Antara News” Entitled: “Indonesian Police Re-Examine ‘plastic’ rice”

Didi Hermawan (Politeknik Stibisnis Tegal)

Madani: Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal
Vol 1, No 11 (2023): Desember

Antara News is one of the daily English newspaper which is oriented in some various field such as headline, editorial, article, opinion, world and etc. This paper aims to analyse the news item text in Antara News entitled “Indonesian Police Re-Examine ‘plastic’ rice”.  The object of this study is news taken from Antara News  online  published on 26th of may 2015, 15:56:55 pm. In this study, the writer concerned on functional grammar, mainly on ideational meaning. In order to get the objective of this study, the writer used some theories related to the literature, discourse, genre, grammar and ideational meaning itself. In the Process type analysis, there were four types of processes found in the news and the most process appeared was material process. The writer also found that there was news item genre, instead of recount, which dominate the text . the recount or past tense develop the text