REFERENCE IN HEALTH ARTICLES OF THE READERS DIGEST MAGAZINE

The title of this thesis is Reference in Health Articles of the Reader’s Digest
Magazine. This study is aimed at analysing what types of reference used in health
articles of the magazine, and how are reference used in health articles of the
magazine. The writer applies the theory of Halliday and Hasan about types of
reference, there are personal, demonstrative, and comparative reference. Personal
reference included personal pronoun, possesive adjective, and possesive pronoun,
while demonstrative reference is reference by means location, then comparative
reference is reference by means similarity or difference. The use of reference is
purposed to make the readers understand the text easily and persuade the readers
to do something as the texts mean. The writer focuses on the analysis of types of
reference in 8 health articles as the data, and finally, personal reference is found as
the most dominant type that the author used in writing the articles.