DA Assignment 1

Name : Wahyu Widowati 

NIM: A320090178 

Class: E 

 

DA Assignment 1

 

1. Discourse study is an analysis of text to interpret the text based on the rules, and the interpretations have the meaning.

 

2. Sunday, March 25, 2012 20:24 PM 

                                          No such thing as 'free education': Minister. 

 

Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar says he wants regional governments to stop making misleading comments about providing people with a so-called free education. “We should stop using the term 'free education'. In reality there is actually no such thing,” Azwar said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Saturday. “Some citizen tax money went to the regional budget. It's normal if they don’t need to pay anything for education services funded by the budget.” The law mandates that the central and regional governments allocate 20 percent of their annual budgets for education. (hwa) 

 

1. Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar says he wants regional governments to stop making misleading comments about providing people with a so-called free education. 

2.  “We should stop using the term 'free education'. 

3. In reality there is actually no such thing,” Azwar said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Saturday. 

4.  “Some citizen tax money went to the regional budget. 

5. It's normal if they don’t need to pay anything for education services funded by the budget.” 

6. The law mandates that the central and regional governments allocate 20 percent of their annual budgets for education. 

 

 Interpretation: 

Deixis: 

 a. Personal Deixis 

• He in no 1 refers to Azwar Abu Bakar as Administrative Reforms Minister. 

• We in no 2 means Azwar Abu Bakar and overall Indonesian. 

• It in no 5 means the citizen don’t need to pay education, or free education for all citizen. 

• They in no 5 means some citizen who pay tax money to the country. 

• Their in no 6 means the central and regional government which manage the annual badget in Indonesia for education and the other matters.

 

b. Temporal Deixis 

 Saturday in no 3 means one day before the news published. The date is march 24, 2012 

 

c. Social Deixis 

Administrative Reforms Minister in no 1 refers to Azwar Abu Bakar, and administrative reforms minister means he is an Indonesian officer who handle about empowerment of apparatus and democratic reform of Indonesia. 

 

Cohesion: 

a) Reference 

 He in no 1 is cataphoric reference, because he refers to Azwar Abu Bakar who mentioned at the beginning. 

 

b) Lexical Cohesion 

Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar says he wants regional governments to stop making misleading comments about providing people with a so-called free education. “We should stop using the term 'free education”. In this sentences there are repetition of stop. It uses to affirm the sentence. And in this sentences there are the second repetition. It is free education. They included in reiteration.