THEMATIC PROGRESSION OF THE SUNDANESE FEMALE WRITERS

There are many researches on thematic progression in English texts, but it is very limited research of the thematic progression in Sundanese texts. This article tries to describe the thematic progression in Sundanese texts which are written by Sundanese female writers. The data obtained from a collection of short stories in Sundanese language which is written by eleven Sundanese female writers. The employed method is descriptive method. The present researcheranalyzes and describes the data from eleven paragraphs.The result shows that 27% the Sundanese female writers use simple thematic progression and 73%use multiple thematic progressions. There are three types of simple thematic progression; they are linear theme (9%), constant rheme (9%), or constant theme (9%). The multiple thematic progressions have three different types; two element thematic progression (36.50%), three element thematic progression (18.25%), and four thematic progression (18.25%). It is concluded that the dominant thematic progression used by Sundanese female writers is the two element thematic progressions as the part of multiple thematic progression.