Abstract
The purpose of this research is to reveal the form and pattern of lexical shift either lexically or grammatically by (1) to describe the form of grammatical metaphor of academic text, and (2) to describe the pattern of lexical shift in academic texts. The type of this research is qualitative research using Functional Systemic Linguistic approach. The academic texts was analyzed using theory of M.A.K. Halliday. The data in this study are words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in academic texts that undergo lexical and sentence shifts. The data source in this research is thesis of Indonesian Language and Literature Study Program in the year of 2015. Data collection techniques are documentation, reading, and record technique. The results found forms of grammatical metaphor which include (1) nominalization, (2) groups of nouns, and (3) simplex phrases. The lexic shift patterns found in this study include: (1) verbs to nouns, (2) adjectives to nouns, (3) adverbs to nouns, and (4) nouns to nouns.
Highlights
Scientific work as a scientific essay, its form and presentation is demanded scientifically in order to foster a scientific ethos so that it makes the students as consumers of science, and able to become a producer of thought and writing in the field of science
2 THE FORM OF GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR This paper describes the forms of grammatical metaphor in the thesis of an Indonesian students
Based on the results of the analysis and discussion can be concluded that the form of shifting metaphor in the thesis of students of Indonesian Language and Literature Program there are three, namely nominalization, noun groups, and simplex phrases
Summary
Scientific work as a scientific essay, its form and presentation is demanded scientifically in order to foster a scientific ethos so that it makes the students as consumers of science, and able to become a producer of thought and writing in the field of science. The general view that has evolved so far has been that the scientific work has characteristics such as simple, solid, objective, and logical. There has been no empirical evidence proposed to provide a sufficient linguistic explanation of this simple, concise, objective, and logical sense. The scientific of a scientific work into something that needs to be followed up so that the characteristics of a text is understood instinctively, but based on a particular data or theory that is the theory of Functional Systemic Linguistics to find the meaning of scholarly a scientific work or academic texts. The type of this research is qualitative research which is studied by using Functional System Linguistic Theory M.A.K. Halliday. The data analysis technique begins with data identification, data classification, data interpretation, and data descriptions
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