Modality In Covid-19 Articles of Social And Political Academic Journal

Abstract

This research aims to identify the types and values of modality and to analyze how the modality realized in Covid-19 articles of social and political academic journal by applying the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. This research used qualitative descriptive research method and also employed the theory proposed by Halliday [9]. The data was the clauses from six Covid-19 articles of social and political academic journal in different aspects, such as in the field of (social, economy, political, health, communication, and tourism) Written by Indonesian writer that published in Universitas Gajah Mada from July until November 2020. The data were collected through documentary technique. The findings of this study showed that there were two types of modalities used in Covid-19 articles of social and political academic journal. There were 173 clauses categorized as modalization type and 87 clauses categorized as modulation type. Furthermore, there were found three values of modality consisting of high, median and low. Yet, median value was the most popular value in Covid-19 articles. This study also found the realization of modality as modal operators generally used in Covid-19 articles as it is found 238 clauses categorized as modal operators from the analysis.