MOOD & transitivity.pdf

EEAL Journal, 2018

Ideational meaning, or some linguist called experiential meaning is the meaning that expresses the experience or the idea of someone on producing text. Ideational meaning is one of three metafunction in Systemic Functional Linguistic Study. Ideational meaning realized by transitivity in the clause. Transitivity involves processes, participants and circumtances. Ideational meaning represents an experience of the writer or the speaker of some text, that's why Ideational meaning also called clause as representation. Many people recognize this Ideational meaning to analyze the clauses. In this research, the writer will use Ideational meaning terms to analyze HIV AIDS slogans. HIV AIDS epidemic is a huge case around the world. Many organizations and people use a slogan to convey some messages or to advertize some information, including HIV AIDS case. This preliminary research has a finding that HIV AIDS slogans has 50% material process, 38% relational process, 6% mental process, 6% verbal process.

In the last five years, the political discourse of President Barack Obama has attracted a great number of researchers and students in Linguistics and Social Studies around the world. The discourses through which Obama addressed the issues encountered by the Muslim World which have been central in the political world, still require more investigations and linguistic analysis. The current study is dedicated to investigate the political discourse of President Obama which embodies Islamic world issues, applying the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as the theoretical framework to study language structure and function. Specifically, the study will apply the SFL theory as introduced by Halliday (1985-1994) and reintroduced by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004 2014). The principle aim of the current study is to expose the representation of the issues in the discourse of President Barack Obama through its Transitivity processes and Modality patterns. Six speeches by the President sourced from the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/), the archive of President Obama‟s speeches are used as data. The study applies a qualitative method to analyze the data. The results show that the president mobilizes various types of Transitivity processes and participants, and Modality types in order to express his views. His linguistic devices of Transitivity and Modality featured within his speeches on the Muslim world issues can be a good linguistic account to understand his construction of these issues.

This Thesis entitled “An Analysis of Metafunction and Context of Situation in Martin Luther King’s Speech “I Have A Dream” is an analysis of Systemic Functional Linguistic that discusses about metafunction and context of situation realized in Martin Luther King’s speech. For analyzing metafunction and related it into context of situation which is realized through register variable is used theories of Halliday (1985), Gerrot and Wignell (1994), and Enggins (2004). Metafunction is analyzed through clauses of Luther King’s speech, then these metafunction components reflects register variable for analyzing context of situation. Ideational function which is realized through transitivity system reflects field, textual function which is realized through theme and rheme reflects mode, while interpersonal function which is realized through mood and residue reflects tenor. Clauses found in Luther King’s speech are 168 clauses. These clauses are analyzed through transitivity, theme and rheme, and mode and residue. The field found in this speech is “the slavery towards negros in America”, the mode is written text, and the tenor used is informal language. Keywords: metafunction, ideational function, textual function, interpersonal function, context of situation, register variable, systemic functional linguistic

2018

This study explores the linguistic and rhetorical features that characterize the religious genre. It specifically tackles the Islamic English lessons introduced to English speaking Muslims. A large number of lessons are uploaded to the internet, and many of them share the same subject. However, they acquire different rates of views. The study reviews the theory of Systemic Functional Grammar developed by Halliday as a basis for the analysis of the lessons. Rhetoric introduced by Aristotle in Ancient Greek is referred to as a tool of delimiting the persuasive elements in the lessons. The aim is to identify both linguistic and rhetorical features that distinguish the lessons with a higher views rate. The results are amassed through examining four lessons. Each two form a pair with a unified subject. Hopefully the conclusions would help preachers to improve the Islamic lessons they deliver. Key words: religious discourse, Systemic Functional Grammar, rhetorical analysis, Mood, cohesion, transitivity, ethos, logos, pathos.

This paper aimed to describe the students' problems in narrative writing. The population of this research involved 38 students of senior high school students at one of senior high school in Riau province. This research employed purposive sampling method as it selected one student's writing as the sample. The sample was chosen based on the consideration that it covered the general problem of the whole population. This study employed the descriptive qualitative method. The data obtained were analyzed using systemic functional perspectives that involved there metafunctions. The result showed that the student's major problem in writing a narrative text was in interpersonal and experiential metafunction. Students' mostly employed simple present form in describing the finite. Besides he also has problems with some problems are also happened in determining the participants or subjects, pronoun, modality, and empty theme. To cover these problems it was proposed problem-solving approach as the pedagogical implication. Problem-solving approach is believed to be appropriate for students as it not only improves student cognitive aspects in terms of communicative skills, but also empower students' psychology aspects to be an active learner that create their own solution towards the problems they faced.

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