THEME IN DAILY THE JAKARTA POST TEXTS

This descriptive qualitative research deals with Theme in the Daily Jakarta Post texts. The objectives are to find out the dominant from types of Themes in Daily The Jakarta Post texts, to explore and to describe the Types of Theme in daily The Jakarta Post texts. Themes are the aspects which are involved all clauses and the aspects which are discussed in thematic structure. In English, the theme is indicated by the position in the clause. This study specifically focused to describe the patterns of themes are used in the daily Jakarta Post texts and to find the reason why the structures of themes are used in the daily Jakarta Post texts. The data were taken from the daily Jakarta Post texts that is sports article. It was taken by applying a documentary technique. The document is read and analyzed to specify the theme in the daily Jakarta Post texts. The findings showed that all patterns of themes are occurred in the sports article, but proportion of each is different. Topical theme is dominant than textual and interpersonal theme. It is occurred because topical theme as starting point of sentences and it is an obligatory element of theme itself.