The Seven Standards of Textuality in News Texts: A Discourse Analysis

The textuality of a text is important to decide whether could be considered textual or not. This study examines the some news articles about recent trending topic that has drawn world’s attention as it took many people’s lives: Kanjuruhan tragedy. data this were words, phrases, and sentences taken from five which then analyzed using de Beaugrande Dressler’s theory concerning seven standards make acceptable unacceptable in terms textuality. revealed those texts have fulfilled all textuality, cover Cohesion, Coherence, Intentionality, Acceptability, Informativity, Situationality, Intertextuality. Thus, can trustworthy texts.