Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan frekuensi, fungsi dan distribusi kata modalitas yang terdapat dalam koran Radar Tarakan bulan Januari 2023. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif, adapun sumber data penelitian yakni Koran Radar Tarakan Bulan Januari 2023. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan berupa teknik baca, simak, dan catat. Prosedur yang dilalui dalam penelitian ini yaitu menandai data, mengelompokkan data, menganalsis dan mengidentifikasi data. Peneliti terlebih dahulu mengumpulkan tajuk wacana sebagai sumber data, kemudian dilanjutkan dengan membaca, menyimak dan menandai kehadiran kata modalitas. Data yang telah terkumpul dikelompokkan berdasarkan kategorisasinya kemudian dilihat frekuensi kemunculan, fungsi dan distribusinya dalam kalimat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebanyak empat puluh satu kata modalitas yang muncul. Frekuensi modalitas intensional muncul sebanyak sebelas kali, frekuensi modalitas epistemik muncul sebanyak dua puluh lima kali, frekuensi modalitas deontik muncul sebanyak satu kali dan modalitas dinamik muncul sebanyak empat kali. kata modalitas yang ditemukan masing-masing memiliki fungsi dan didistribusikan yakni sebagai predikat dan keterangan.


Kata Kunci: Modalitas, Tajuk Wacana, Bahasa Indonesia

The study aimed to describe the modality words within the discourse headlines of Radar Tarakan newspaper during January 2023, focusing in their frecuency, function, and distribution. Employing a qualitative research approach, the study drew the data from Radar Tarakan newspaper discourse headlines published during January 2023. Data collection techniques encompassed reading, listening, and maerking, categorization, analysis, and identification. Initially, discourse headlines were collected as the primary data source, followed by thorough reading, listening, and annotation to identify instances of modality words. Subssequently, the gathered data were classified based on their respective categories, and their frequency, function, and distribution within sentences were examined. Findings revealed the presence of forty-one modality words, categorized into intentional, epistemic, deontic, and dynamic modalities. Intentional modality was observed eleven times, epistemic modality twenty-five times, deontic modality once, and dynamic modality four times. Each modality word served distinct functional roles and was distributed across sentence structures as predicates and adverbs. Keywords: modality, discourse headlines, Indonesian language.