Attitude on Kompas’ Editorial on Oxygen Crisis: Prioritizing Saving People’s: An Appraisal Analysis

Abstract

This study is entitled “Attitude on  Kompas’ Editorial on Oxygen Crisis: Prioritizing Saving People”: An Appraisal Analysis. The aim of this research is to look at the Appraisal of Attitude utilized in the Kompas Editorial "Oxygen Crisis: Prioritizing Saving People." The descriptive qualitative methodologies are used in this study. The theoretical framework used by the researcher was Martin and White (2005) and Martin and Rose (2007) theories. To begin, editorials about the Oxygen Crisis on July 5, 2021 were gathered from Kompas’ website. The data was evaluated by determining whether clauses had appraising items. The clauses containing appraising items were then categorized according to the type of appraisal item they included. In this research, the author found 16 clauses that contain appraising items. Most of them are affects. It happens since the writer of the news shows his or her feeling to the situation at that time. Thus, the affect is shown more.