Abstract :
The objectives of this research are to identify what Metafunctions are applied in
chemistry text and how they characterize a scientific text. It was conducted by
applying content analysis. The data for this research was a twelve-paragraph
chemistry text. The data were collected by applying a documentary technique. The
document was read and analyzed to find out the Metafunction. The data were
analyzed by some procedures: identifying the types of process, counting up the
number of the processes, categorizing and counting up the cohesion devices,
classifying the types of modulation and determining modality value, finally counting
up the number of sentences and clauses, then scoring the grammatical intricacy index.
The findings of the research show that Material process (71of 100) is mostly used,
circumstance of spatial location (26 of 56) is more dominant than the others. Modality
(5) is less used in order to avoid from subjectivity. Impersonality is implied through
less use of reference either pronouns (7) or demonstrative (7), conjunctions (60) are
applied to develop ideas, and the total number of the clauses are found much more
dominant (109) than the total number of the sentences (40) which results high
grammatical intricacy index. The Metafunction found indicate that the chemistry text
has fulfilled the characteristics of scientific or academic text which truly reflects it as
a natural science.
