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Journal of Cultural Narratives in Digital Society
Published by Universitas Negeri Surabaya
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Journal of Cultural Narrative in Digital Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to exploring the interplay between cultural narratives and digital technologies in contemporary society. It provides a platform for interdisciplinary scholarship that examines how digital media shapes, transforms, and transmits cultural stories, traditions, and identities. The journal is published biannually (July and December) by S1 Sastra Inggris (Kampus Kabupaten Magetan) Universitas Negeri Surabaya.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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An SFL Analysis of English Grammatical Features in BBC and Reuters News Reports on the Indonesia–US Trade Agreement Dini Vidya Salsabila; Citra Nur Aziza; Chalimah Chalimah
Journal of Cultural Narratives in Digital Society Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Cultural Narrative in Digital Society
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26740/jcnds.v2i1.55781

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News reports play an important role in communicating political and economic events to global audiences. Beyond conveying information, news texts construct meanings through various linguistic resources that shape readers’ understanding of events. This study investigates English grammatical features in two international news reports discussing the Indonesia–US Trade Agreement published by BBC and Reuters on 20 February 2026. The study employs the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), particularly the ideational metafunction and transitivity system, to examine how grammatical features contribute to meaning construction in economic news discourse. The data consist of two news reports covering the same economic event, allowing a comparative analysis of linguistic choices across different media institutions. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, the study focuses on four grammatical features: parts of speech that express connecting relationships, expletive it and there, derivational forms of verbs, and descriptive adjectives. The findings indicate that connecting relationships are the most frequently occurring feature in both reports, followed by derivational verbs and descriptive adjectives, while expletive constructions occur only minimally. Furthermore, the identified grammatical features are predominantly associated with material and relational processes within the transitivity system. These findings demonstrate that grammatical choices contribute significantly to the representation of economic actions, evaluations, and institutional relationships in news discourse. The study is expected to contribute to the application of SFL in media discourse analysis and provide authentic examples for grammar and discourse analysis courses in English language education.
THE GRAMMATICAL MEANING OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES, DERIVATIONAL VERBS, AND EXPLETIVES IN ENGLISH NEWS TEXTS: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS Shenna Swantika Sari; Daffa Nabil Ahmad; Cha Limah
Journal of Cultural Narratives in Digital Society Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Cultural Narrative in Digital Society
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26740/jcnds.v2i1.55801

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Using the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study examines the grammatical meaning of descriptive adjectives, derivational verbs, and expletive constructions in English news stories. The study is to investigate how these lexical-grammatical elements support the development of meaning in news discourse, namely in the representation of events, participants, and information organization. Three English news stories from CNN Business, BBC News, and The Jakarta Post were used to gather data using a qualitative descriptive method. Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña's interactive model and Halliday and Matthiessen's SFL framework were used to examine the data. The results demonstrate that descriptive adjectives are the most prevalent feature and primarily serve in ideational and interpersonal meanings by characterizing and assessing people and economic occurrences. While expletive constructions contribute to textual meaning by structuring information and enhancing discourse coherence, derivative verbs contribute to ideational meaning by using morphological derivation to depict actions and processes. Even though they are uncommon, expletives are nonetheless useful for organizing news texts. The study comes to the conclusion that many lexical-grammatical resources interact to build grammatical meaning in news discourse rather than separate linguistic elements, with each feature contributing to textual, interpersonal, and ideational metafunctions in SFL.

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