Interpersonal Meaning Systemic Functional Grammar

This study deals with the interpersonal meaning revealed the use of modality system in students’ hortatory exposition text at one of universities in Ciamis. Five texts of students’ hortatory exposition were analyzed to find out what types of modality are used and what interpersonal meaning which is contained through modality system. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) based on Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2004) framework since it can seek and identify the level of language structured which makes kinds of meaning. The findings showed that all of clauses which contained modality system indicated author’s interpersonal meaning with different value of language in the texts. The different types of language value and polarity also indicated the author’s interpersonal meaning in the texts. In addition, this analysis concluded that five texts comparised several modalization and modulation types which appeared with different ranks.

This study deals with the interpersonal meaning revealed the use of modality system in students’ hortatory exposition text at one of universities in Ciamis. Five texts of students’ hortatory exposition were analyzed to find out what types of modality are used and what interpersonal meaning which is contained through modality system. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) based on Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2004) framework since it can seek and identify the level of language structured which makes kinds of meaning. The findings showed that all of clauses which contained modality system indicated author’s interpersonal meaning with different value of language in the texts. The different types of language value and polarity also indicated the author’s interpersonal meaning in the texts. In addition, this analysis concluded that five texts comparised several modalization and modulation types which appeared with different ranks.
Key words: Modality, Interpersonal meaning, SFG, Hortatory Exposition Text.

___________________________________________________________________ This research examined Interpersonal Meaning in conversation texts in grade x English textbooks " Developing English Competencies and Interlanguage. This study was a qualitative research employing a descriptive comparative method. The data were taken from the printed versions of an electronic English textbooks " Developing English Competencies " by Ahmda Dody et al 2008 and " Interlanguage " by Joko Priyono et al 2008. Four conversation texts of each English textbook were selected from the whole texts that have the same topics based on the basic competence of the school based curiculum. Thus, the total data were eight conversation texts. This research resulted several findings. The first finding is the realization and similarities and differences of interpersonal meaning in both texts consisting status, affect and contact and the appraisal system consisting affect, judgment and appreciatiation. There were similarities between conversation texts of two English textbooks. The similarities were found between texts A1 and B1, A2 and B2 and A3 and B3 their status was equal and their social distance was frequent contact and high affective involvement. Second, the differeences were found between A4 and B4. From the appraisal system of attitude (affect, judgment and appreciation), texts from textbook A and those from textbook B showed good attitudes, which can be proof by the fact that the conversation texts in both conversation textbooks mostly use positive clauses more than negative one in realizing the interpersonal meaning (tenor).