Projection in News Story and Editorial Texts

This research deals with projection that is used in news story and editorial texts. The aims of this research are: (1) to investigate similarities and differences of the categories of projection used in the news story and editorial texts, (2) to describe similarities and differences of realizations of projection used in the news story and editorial text, and (3) to explain similarities and differences on the reasons for the use of projection in the news story and editorial texts. This research is conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data of this research are clause complexes containing projection in news story and editorial texts of Indonesian newspapers. The sources of data are taken from news story and editorial texts of four newspaper publications, namely the daily Kompas, Republika, Waspada and Sinar Indonesia Baru (SIB).The data are analyzed by using interactive model in which the clause complexes are analyzed with reference to systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theory about projection. The findings indicate that there are similarities and diffrences in the categories of projection, realization and reasons for the use of projetion in the news story and editorial texts of Indonesian newspapers.