APPRAISALS IN EDITORIALS OF THE DAILY KOMPAS

Objective : to describe elements of appraisals in the editorials, to elaborate the manner of use of appraisal in the editorials, and to elaborate the context of use of the appraisals. The instrument of the data collection is documentation technique from the editorial of the daily KOMPAS published from April to June 2013 within the topic education in Indonesia. The data from the three editorials analyzed by Miles and Huberman (1994) data analysis with the procedures, namely, data reduction, data display, and conclusions/verification. The results of the study are: Attitude (Affect:Dissatisfied, Insecure, Disinclination, Unhappy), (Judgement (Tenacity (-);Veracity (-), Normality (-); Propriety (+) (once); Maintenance (-), Quality (-)), (Appreciation (Impact (-), Balance (-), Quality (-), Meaning(-),Meaning (+) , Maintenance (+), Maintenance (-), ( twice ), Complexity (-), Maintenance(-)), Engagement (Proclaim Concur: Affirmative, Disclaim Counter Concession, Proclaim Correlative Structure, Attribution, Attribution Knowledge, Proclaim Projection, Entertain, Disclaim Negation, Counter Expectation, Entertain : Rhetorical, Deny : Negation), Graduation : (Force: (Number); Quality (High), Quality (Low), Quality (Modality: Middle), Time, Methapor)), Focus (Sharpen and Soft). The realization of appraisal are : the writer appraises carefully, The writer gives appraisal by supporting with the facts or some supporting opinion (argumentative), plays the scales of his appraisal, stands in the middle while giving his appraisal (independent), and the reason of the use of appraisal is dealt with the context of situation (egalitarian period), the context of culture (Javanese culture and the culture of the readership), and the ideology of KOMPAS that is Humanism Trance dental.