An Analysis of Thematic Progression in the Entertainment Articles of Jakarta Post in March 2012

Language is one of tool to express the idea and to communicate with some people. It can be used by using written or spoken. Writing is to express a language that a message from the writer can understand with the reader. When we read the text, we will get some information. This study is aimed analyze type of theme and how is thematic progression in the entertainment articles of Jakarta post in March 2012. The writer will analyze seven entertainment articles to analyze of thematic progression and the writer just takes the article in every Monday and Saturday in every week in March 2012. This is a qualitative descriptive study. The data were collected by analyzing types of Theme and Thematic Progression in the entertainment articles of Jakarta Post in March 2012. There are seven articles that the writer analyzes in this research, the article from entertainment articles of Jakarta Post in March 2012. The writer analyzes and identifies based on what gerot and wigneell and Eggins particularly exemplified. The result of this research that there are three types of theme; they are topical theme, textual theme and interpersonal theme. First article until the seventh article there are 40 paragraphs that divided into 134 clauses. But in one clause there are two or more types of theme. So, in seven articles they are 36 textual themes, 9 interpersonal themes and 131 topical themes. The dominant type of theme is topical theme. And there are five types of thematic progressions, they are re-iteration theme, zigzag theme, multiple theme, blending and unclear. From the seven articles that consists of 40 paragraph that the result of this research is 10 re-iteration or constant theme, 13 Zigzag theme, 2 multiple theme, 5 blending and 10 unclear. based on the result above that Zigzag theme is dominant in these articles so the writer concludes that the articles focus on the rheme to the next theme, the readers of this articles more easy to understand the meaning of the text but there are many blending and unclear that the readers must careful to focus the meaning of the text. While the English learners should be understand and more learn about thematic progression clearly. The writer suggests this research gives contribution the future researcher to reference their research, especially about thematic progression