Identifying Participants in "The Story of Roro Mendut and Pronocitro" Retold by Slamet Riyanto: Array

Tanggoro, Urip

Jurnal Dialektika Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015): September 2015 - February 2016

This study seeks to answer a research question: how are the participants introduced in the story? Introducing people mostly covers definite (presuming) more than indefinite (presenting) and difference (comparative). Tracking people aspect mostly deals with pronouns (presuming) more than with name (possessive) and with “the” (presuming). Possession aspect is used “by possessive pronouns” more than “by possession”. The story produces possession (126.31%) dominated by possessive pronouns, tracking people (90.51%) dominated by possessive (name), and introducing people (47.42%) dominated by definite (presuming).