LEKSIKA
Vol 9, No 2 (2015)

CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS ON THE THEME/RHEME STRUCTURE ON HEADLINES OF THE JAKARTA POST AND MEDIA INDONESIA

Setia Rini (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
12 Aug 2016

Abstract

This study is to investigate the contrastive structure of Theme/ Rheme analysis in identifying marked and unmarked Themes in English and Indonesian headlines. The study takes as its starting point the assumption that the different choices of Theme/ Rheme, their organization at the local and global structures and the pres-entation of Given/New information of the headlines presented in English and Indonesian. This study designs a Discourse Analysis. It analyzes Theme/Rheme in Indonesian and English clauses. The study seeks to ana-lyze and compare the different choices of Theme/Rheme in the thematic structures. These issues are investi-gated in a corpus of English and Indonesian headline about lieu of law on direct regional election. Most of the Theme used was marked themes. Keywords: Contrastive, Theme and Rheme, Headline.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LEKSIKA

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Leksika is a journal on language, literature and language teaching. It is published by Faculty of Letters, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia. Its issues are published twice a year in February and August. Leksika has been indexed in Google Scholar, Academia edu, Base, ...