THE STUDY OF TRANSITIVITY ON THE COMMENTS ON BARACK OBAMA’S SELFIE PICTURES
Abstract
Selfie is a photo of yourself that you take, typically with a smartphone or a
webcam, and usually put on a social networking site. Nowadays, selfie is very
popular, so there are many selfie pictures in social media including the selfie
picture of the 44th president of United States, Barrack Obama. He likes to take a
selfie picture in every moment of his job as a President of the United States. It is
not the first time in recent months that the president has taken a selfie picture with
some very famous people. The selfie pictures of a president like Obama seem not
well received by society. One of the selfies that arises a divergence of opinion is
one taken during Nelson Mandela's memorial service at the Johannesburg's FNB
Stadium at last December with various world leaders.
The goal of this study is to examine what kinds of processes used
dominantly and to find out the dominant processes in the newspaper texts on the
comments on Barrack Obama’s selfie pictures and to discover what is inside the
comments so that the correct assumptions on Barrack Obama’s selfie pictures can
be achieved. The investigation is based on the theory of DA and SFL proposed by
Halliday from the point of processes includes in transitivity.
This study applies the mixed method (both qualitative and quantitative
method) to analyze the data. The primary data are taken from some selected
newspapers on Barrack Obama’s selfie pictures. The primary data are collected by
using random sampling. Next, the data are analyzed by using transitivity analysis
and the result is presented in the form of statistical analysis.
The findings of this thesis expose that the processes used by the writers
inside the newspapers texts and the choice of verbs in delivering their news on the
comments on Barack Obama’s selfie pictures. Most of the news serves negative report about Obama selfie that taken during his presidency occupation with some
famous world leaders and invoke other persons as the participant. In other words,
it can be assumed that Obama’s selfie is not always been well received by the
society.