Abstract
This study was conducted to describe the thematic structure in the news of Waspada Newspaper. The objectives of the study are 1) to describe the types of themes which are used in the sport texts of Waspada Newspaper and 2) to find the reasons why the structure of themes used in the ways they are. This study was conducted in descriptive qualitative design. The source of data was obtained from the clauses in sport texts of Waspada that consists of six sport texts. In analyzing the thematic structure, there are three kinds of theme: textual, interpersonal and ideational or topical. It was taken by applying documentary technique. The findings showed that unmarked multiple theme is the most dominant, unmarked simple theme is the second one Comparing with other themes, the marked multiple theme gets the third while the marked simple theme is the least dominant theme in sport texts of Waspada newspaper.
Highlights
Discourse analysis is the analysis of the language used by a speech community
Finding The data analysis of this study is concerned with Theme and Rheme found in sport texts of Waspada newspaper
It is found that the unmarked multiple theme become the most dominant theme used in Sport texts of Waspada Newspaper and unmarked simple theme is the second one
Summary
Discourse analysis is the analysis of the language used by a speech community. There are certain elements of communication process. One of the elements is textual function in which human being able to use language in the process of interaction or organizing message that has relevant to context and concern with clause as message. That process used in communication or conversation. It can be seen in social media, online media such, magazine and even newspaper. Discourse is defined as a meaning that is realized in the sentence. Sentence is many units of language or linguistics form that is functional in contents. This means that a discussion on discourse is relate of the sentence
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