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.