Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This research investigated the types of linguistic forms of english register and the meaning of register used in the jakarta post football news. the linguistic forms that are investigated are specifically in content words and noun phrases. to obtain the data, documentation was used as the instruments. the data were analyzed by using the model proposed by elo and kyangas (2007). it was found that the that there are two kinds of data in the form of content word, 8 data of noun, two verbs. in the form of noun phrase, the researcher found two data in the category of attributive adjective and 7 data of noun in noun phrases. all of english registers found in the jakarta post’s football news have different meaning when compared with their conceptual meaning in the dictionary. the most dominant type of changes in meaning is social meaning.