Thematic Analysis in Physics Text Entitiled “Energy Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed”

Abstract

Departing from systemic functional linguistics theory, this study is aimed at analyzing textual function found in physics text entitled “Energy Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed” . This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data were in the form of clauses totaling to 28 clauses from 8 paragraphs. From the result of the analysis, it was found that marked and unmarked Theme were realized in the data. Then, the dominant Theme found which reaches 20 Themes from the 28 Themes found or it is equal to 71,42%. It can be interpreted that the text use common structure in the clause.

Depiction of Women as Unfair Creatures in John Donne’s “Go and Catch a Falling Star”: Utilizing Norman Fairclough’s Model as a Research Tool in the Critical Discourse Analysis

“…The main aim of CL is to separate ideologies integrated in a discourse and show the patterns in which these ideologies and text are working together as a system of linguistics characteristics. Discourse analysis not only as a tool to identify anomalies in texts or characteristics of texts that might cause reading difficulties, but also as a very important source to help students become active readers (Suprayetno, 2020).…”