E-Journal of English Language and Literature Volume 9 No. 4 E-Journal of English Language & Literature ISSN 2302-3546 Published by English Language & Literature Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang available at http://ejournal.unp.ac.id/index.php/jell © FBS Universitas Negeri Padang A NARRATIVE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) NEWS Anisa Choirany 1 , Hermawati Syarif 2 English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts Universitas Negeri Padang email: choiranyanisa@gmail.com Abstract Although there have been various stylistic studies of news, the use of narrative stylistic approach in analysing news has not been common. The aim of this research is to analyse the stylistic domains and narrative components in the Associated Press (AP) news. It was carried out descriptive-qualitatively. Ten news were studied by using stylistic units of analysis based on model of narrative structure in Simpson (2004) and Jahn’s classification of narrative components (2005). After completing the analysis, it was found that news is one category of narrative and it contains the use of six stylistic domains and nine narrative components. The six stylistic domains are textual medium, sociolinguistic code, action and event, point of view, textual medium and intertextuality. In addition, there are also occurences of the nine narrative components: narration, focalization, narrative situation, action, story analysis, tellability, tense, time and narrative mode. Key words: News, stylistic domains, narrative components A. INTRODUCTION One of the diverse factors which determines the language use is style. In their book Style in Fiction, Leech and Short (2007: 9) generally refer style to the way in which language is used in a given context, by a given person, for a given purpose. This means that a user’s style is dissimilar to others at the moment of speaking or writing and it depends on the circumstance. It is what distinguishes one user to other users and one text type to others. Style is studied in stylistics, the study of the ways in which meaning is created through language in literature as well as in other types of text (Nørgaard et al., 2010: 1). Most researches in stylistics deal with the analysis of literary works while a range of discourse types can also be studied by using the stylistic approach. 1 English ELLSP of English Department of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang graduated on December 2020 2 Lecturer of English Department of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang