Kamis, 06 Juni 2013

Assignment Reading Scientific Texts #1



“Jokowi is not in the big leagues yet”
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, March 20 2013, 6:10 AM

Senior Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Guruh Soekarnoputra said that popular Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is not ready to become the country's next president.
"He is dedicated and sincere in his work. But I don't think he has the capacity to become president. It is better that he does not run for president now," Guruh said as quoted by kompas.com.
On Monday, PDI-P secretary-general Tjahjo Kumolo issued a statement indicating that the party might be warming to the idea of nominating Jokowi in 2014.

The Analysis of The Article Above
The first sentence shows us the system of Transitivity, which contains Verbal Process. Therefore, usually we will find that the participants of that sentence are sayer as a subject and receiver as an object. In verbal process also, there is a verbiage explaining what the sayer said. Furthermore, M.A.K Halliday writes in his book “ An Introduction to Functional Grammar” that there are still some contents in verbal process such as quoted and quoting.
This sentence  has only one participant which is sayer shown by the phrase Senior Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Guruh Soekarnoputra. Actually, that phrase just needs one word: Guruh Soekarnoputra. However, from that phrase we can know that there is an identity explored in circumstance which is put in the first. As we know that Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is one of the biggest and oldest parties in Indonesia so that the writer put word: senior to emphasize the reader about its identity. On the other hand, it also can refer to Alan’s theory about identity status. It explains there are four the identiy statuses; achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, diffusion. Each of them has different identity. In my opinion, the sayer of this sentence has achievement identity because the people or most people in Indonesia have known the party. In addition, the sayer in this sentence also has value put before Guruh Soekarnoputra. That value just reminds us that Guruh Soekarnoputra when he talked in this article is just a politician.
Furthermore, the first sentence shows us about verbiage that tells about Jokowi and gives him value with popular Jakarta Governor. I think, we can really understand from that verbiage about the sayer’s personal identity. We can catch the point from his argument that he wants to be a president and does not want if Jokowi comes a president at present. This sentence also ellipses the receiver because the receiver is we as readers.

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