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CULTURAL THOUGHT PATTERNS AS MANIFESTED IN ARGUMENTATIVE DISCOURSE OF THE PRINTED MEDIA
Susilo
Abstract: This study aims at investigating cultural thought patterns manifested in English-written articles by Indonesian writers. It intends to analyze and describe how the Indonesian writers organized their paragraphs within composition and between paragraphs, and the kinds of rhetorical patterns manifested in the argumentative discourse. This is a qualitative study. The data and sources of data of this study are the argumentative articles taken from The Jakarta Post newspaper published in June, July, and August 1998. Content analysis is used to analyze the data. The procedure proposed by Miles and Huberman (1983) is used. The study revealed that at the composition level, there are four ways of thesis statement formulation used by the Indonesian writers, and the paragraph level, there are five ways of topic sentence formulation and location. This study also revealed that there are two kinds of rhetorical patterns used by the Indonesian writers who wrote English articles, i.e. non-linear and linear patterns.
Keyword: cultural thought pattern, discourse, argumentation, articles. info lebih lanjut hubungi: Email: vidyafkip@yahoo.com
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