STUDENTS’ PARATONE IN NEWS DISCOURSE

Abstract

Soeaker produces paratones in communication (giving information to other).  The phenomenon encourages the writers to conduct this study on paratone in news discourse. This study emphasizes on how paratones in news discourse produced by students.  This study emphasizes qualitative research.  The data of this study is spoken monologue.  The data are obtained through recording the subject while they are reading.  The subjects use microphone and laptop in recording process through adobe audition 1.5. in term,  students read the texts and their speech production is analyzed through pitch tracks and spectograms using speech analyzer.  Based on the findings,  students produce some paratone pattern in both deductive and inductive parahraphs,  mainly: a)  major-major paratone pattern,  b)  major-minor paratone patterns,  c)  minor-major paratone pattern,  and d)  minor-minor paratone pattern.  Next,  the use of paratone patterns in both deductive and inductive paragraph are: a)  to tell information,  b)  to indicate a topic shift,  c)  to emphasize on the sentence that is considered the important one.  Then,  there are two factors that influence students to produce certain paratone patterns,  mainly: syudents’ first language and knowledge