APPRECIATION IN JAKARTA POST’S ARTS AND CULTURAL NEWS: APPRAISAL PERSPECTIVE
This research explored the attitudinal meaning, subsumed under the notion ofappreciation by means of appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005) used in the arts andcultural news discourse which retrieved from the Jakarta Post online site. This researchemployed qualitative descriptive method. The data of this research was obtained from thewhole appreciation items found in the five arts and cultural news discourse. Theobjectives of this research were twofold: (a) to identify the lexical strategies conveyed bythe news writer, and (b) to examine how appraising items reflect the news writer’sattitude towards the news discourse. The results revealed that the writer used bothpositive and negative evaluation items. The data conveyed that the writer predominantlyused positive appraising items with account for 80.89 % in which valuation constituted of47%, followed by reaction (23.47%) and composition (10.43%). Meanwhile, the writerused negative appraising items with account for 19.11% in which valuation constituted of12.17%, followed by reaction (5.21%) and composition (1.73%). The predominantappraising items applied in the arts and cultural news, conveyed that the writer tend to usepositive evaluation items to appreciate arts and cultural news as newsworthy phenomenonwhich has aesthetical value for the readers to read.Keywords: Appreciation, Appraisal Theory, Arts and Cultural News.