Another process which is found in the dialogues is relational process. There are about twenty two attributive processes and twelve identifying
processes. The dialogues are dominant in attributive process rather than identifying process. It indicates that the dialogues deal with the description
of the participants rather than identifying the participants. There are no verbal, behavioral and existential processes found in the dialogues. There
are four possessive processes found in the dialogues.. The possessive process can be found in dialogue 7 and 9.
4.1.3. Textual Analysis
In this section, the result of the analysis will be focused on textual characteristics. There are three categories of textual analysis, which are
interpersonal, ideational and textual analyses. Each dialogue will be analyzed on the basis of these three categories. The dialogues are taken
from the English textbooks published by Erlangga entitled “English on Sky”. The following table summarizes the result of textual analysis.
Table. 4.3. Textual analyses of the dialogues. Textual
classes D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10
Total number of each
category
Inter Theme
- - 1 3 1 2 - 1 1 2 11 Topical
theme 5 7 9 5 8 7 17 4 3 7 72
Textual theme
1 2 3 4 2 3 2 - - 3 20 Total
6 9 13 12 11 12 19 5 14 12 103 As the table shows, there are three categories of the analysis:
interpersonal, topical and textual. On the basis of the analysis, the topical themes are dominant in the dialogues. There are 72 topical themes found the
dialogues. It can also be seen that, dialogue 7 is the mood dominant of all texts. It has seventeen topical themes. This result gives an indication that the
transitivity process used in dialogue 7 occurs in the initial position. Each dialogue found in the textbooks has topical theme. The topical theme occupies
the first level in the dialogues. The textual theme occupies the second level in the dialogues. The total number of textual theme found in the dialogue is 20
textual themes. Actually there are only two components in textual themes namely continuity and conjunctive adjunct. Dialogue 4 is the dominant one of
textual theme in the dialogue. It indicates that dialogue 4 focuses on the use of continuity and conjunctive adjunct. It has four textual themes. The
interpersonal theme occupies the third level in the dialogues. There are 11 interpersonal themes found in those ten dialogues. The result of the
interpersonal analysis presented in the above table shows that the dialogues also focus on the mood label. Dialogue 4 has three interpersonal themes. This
condition signals that those dialogues focus on the mood label such as modal adjunct, vocative, and comment.
4.2. Discussion of Finding
