ahmad ridwan

This study is concerned with transitivity system used in reading passage for junior high school. The objectives of this research were to find out the process type of transitivity system, the most dominant process type and to describe the implication of the most dominant process type used in Reading Passage of English Textbook for Junior High School. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. There were six types of process in 182 clauses. The result of data analysis showed that the numbers in types of process were: material (45,1%), mental (16,5%), relational (26,9%), behavioral (2,7%), verbal (7,7%), and existential (1,1%). The most dominant process type used is Material process. That means that many reading passages in English textbook for junior high school contain action, or happened physicaly. So the process used in reading passages indicated action, doing things or what is done

This research discuss about politeness strategies in movie script. The aim of this research is to identify the four politeness strategies in movie script, they are positive politeness, negative politeness, bald on record, and off record. This research used qualitative design. The data of this research from T2N movie script. After analyzing the data, the writer found that bald on record strategies is most dominant found in that movie. Meanwhile, off record strategy didn't find in T2N movie script. It happened because off record may cause misinterpretation between them in understanding the intention, as result they avoided to use it.