Implementation of Conjunctive Adjunct In The English Anchor News Text

Abstract

Conjunctive adjunct application contributes information management in communication including news texts. This research analyses how the implementation of conjunctive adjunct is applied by English anchor news text of BBC news anchor. The object is entitled “Hurricane Milton leaves destruction across Florida | BBC News” that was taken from the BBC news official YouTube channel. The primary object is the written text, and the supporting object is the audiovisual anchor news performance. The method of collecting and analysing data was conducted by applying qualitative design. There are six findings which are to calm the audiences’ emotion, to give spirit of surviving from the disaster, to encourage the stakeholders to take care the victims indirectly, to express sympathy, to express personal justification to a person’ luck, and to implement a message of taking fast respond. The conjunction does not only take linguistic rules, but also how to manage the information flow conveniently.