Content, Structure, and Linguistics Realization of Popular Articles in Newspapers

Abstract

This article is attempted to describe the content, generic structure and linguistic realization of the popular articles on the newspaper, particularly in the perspective of Indonesian newspaper. This is a descriptive research. The data collection is conducted through the documentation, reading and the questionnaire. There were four newspapers on the article taken from Radar Cirebon published on March 2017. The results of the analysis suggest that the (1) the contents tell us about the facts and the arguments of the authors, (2) the aspect of the structure shows the content of the author's arguments, and (3) The linguistics aspects are realized in various linguistics realization which are relevant to the 2013 curriculum. Conclusion and recommendation are also discussed.