The Mood System

The mood
system
Mood: the interpersonal metafunction
– We look at a clause in relation to how we use language to interact

with others, to negotiate relationship and to express opinions
and attitudes
– types of speech roles
– Giving means inviting to receive
– Demanding means inviting to give
– It concerns how language serves to establish and maintain social

relations: giving and demanding information, goods, or services.
Mood: Giving
– Would you like to have a cup of coffee?

– Laskar pelangi is a novel by Andrea Hirata.
Mood: demanding
– Can I have a cup of tea, please?

– Who has read Laskar Pelangi?
An example of exchanging
information
– A: who has read Laskar Pelangi?

– B: Andi has read lascar pelangi
An example of exchanging goods and
services
– A: Can I have a glass of coffee, please?
– B: yes, sure.
– A: Would you like to have a cup of coffee?

– B: yes, please
The speech functions
– Statement
– Question
– Offer
– Command
Commodity exchange
Role in exchange Goods and Information
services
Giving Offer Statement
Would you like He is giving her
some ice cream? some ice cream
Demanding Command Question
Give me that ice What is he giving
cream! her?
Analyse the following clauses
– Who wrote Laskar Pelangi?

– Laskar Pelangi is a novel by Andrea Hirata
– Can I borrow Laskar Pelangi?
– Would you like to borrow my copy of Laskar Pelangi?
– Why do you like coffee?
– What’s your name?
– How are you doing?
– Let’s go out!
Analyze the text
My cat Meowy
I met my uncle in Bandung one month ago. He gave me a
cat. It is a cute cat. This made me very happy at that time
because I always want to have a cat. Then, I named it
Meowy, very funny, her fur is white. She was frightened
every time her fur was washed clean. Meowy likes a piece
of fish, meat or maybe a mouse. When I came back from
school, she always waited for me.
Different types of statement
(fairclough (2003, p.109)
– STATEMENT OF FACTS (realis statement): statement about what it is, was, has
been the case (e.g. Tom went to Jakarta last week)
– IRREALIS STATEMENT
– Predictions (e.g. Mark will go to Jakarta next week)
– Hypothetical statements (e.g. Travis might go to Jakarta next week, if his mother
allows him to)
– EVALUATIONS: an author’s commitment to what is desirable or undesirable,
good or bad (e.g. Hoppus is a good boy; what a good boy!; Liverpool played
outstandingly last night)
Subject
– Pivotal participant in the clause

– A nominal element. i.e. noun or pronoun.
– If there is only one nominal element in a clause, it will be
the subject
Andi is diligent
Many Indonesian students are frustrated with the final
exam.
Finite
– Indicating the process, action or state that the Subject is engaged

in.
– Expressing tense or modality
– Where the verbal group consists of more than one word, the finite
is always and only the first element in this verbal group
He plays the guitar

She is pretty
Predicator
– Expressed within the verbal group

– Non finite
– When there is only one constituent in the verbal group,
then that constituent is functioning both as finite and as
predicator
Andi becomes smart.

I will go now.
Complement
– Having potential of being the Subject.

– Expressed by a nominal group.
– Can be an adjective, or dependent clause.
She is a student
She is smart
i will give whatever you want
Residue
– The rest of the clause (the rest of the verbal group after finite)
They are nice
They looked nice

subject finite predicator Complement
mood residue
Adjunct
– Additional rather than essential

– Adding extra information about events
– Realized by adverbial group or prepositional phrase
– Could be left out
– Cannot be made subject
In the year of 2012, all undergraduate students should write ….

Hopefully, we can make it.
He is certainly fine.
1. Andrea Hirata wrote Laskar Pelangi.
2. We are learning SFG.
3. Yesterday I made a cake.
4. SFG is not a difficult subject.
5. Do you like football?
6. Well, making a chapter report is for sure interesting.
7. she is reading many novels this semester.
8. Are you alright, Joko?
9. Who will probably be absent in the next meeting?
Modality
– A complex area of English grammar which concerns the different ways in which
a language user can intrude on his/her message, expressing attitude and
judgements of various kinds (Eggins, 1994, p.179).
Modalisation
Probability or
(epistemic
certainty
modality)
modality Usuality
Modulation
(deontic Obligation
modality)
inclination
Modal auxiliary in terms of the degree of certainty
(derewianka, 2011, p.132)
High modality Median modality Low modality

Must Will May
Ought to Should Might
Shall Can Could
Has to Need to Would
Modal adjuncts in terms of the degree of certainty
and assertiveness
(Derewianka, 2011, p.132)
High modality Median modality Low modality
Definitely Probably Possibly
Absolutely Presumably Perhaps
Certainly In all probability Maybe
Positively Apparently Arguably
Undoubtedly Seemingly Allegedly
Surely
Polarity and Orientation
– Polarity: Positive & Negative

– Positive is where there is no indication of a negative morpheme in the clause (e.g.
DeLonge is studying English)
– Negative is when a negative morpheme is expressed (e.g. Barker hasn’t got anyone
to rely on)
– Orientation: Objective & Subjective
– Objective: realized in projecting mental or verbal clauses both in active and agentless
passive construction (they say, they argue, they believe, they think, it is said, it is
argued, it is claimed, it is revealed).
– Subjective: realized in evaluative statements about the writers desirability or
undesirability on the issue discussed (It seems not to suit Indonesia’s religious values)
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The mood

– We look at a clause in relation to how we use language to interact

– It concerns how language serves to establish and maintain social

– Would you like to have a cup of coffee?

– Can I have a cup of tea, please?

– A: who has read Laskar Pelangi?

– A: Would you like to have a cup of coffee?

– Who wrote Laskar Pelangi?

– Pivotal participant in the clause

– Indicating the process, action or state that the Subject is engaged

He plays the guitar

– Expressed within the verbal group

Andi becomes smart.

– Having potential of being the Subject.

They are nice

They looked nice

– Additional rather than essential

In the year of 2012, all undergraduate students should write ….

High modality Median modality Low modality

– Polarity: Positive & Negative

Find a discussion text!

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