Background of The Study
include a person’s experiences, andor through or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer’s direct experience.
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Personal diary often exploited by all who want to remember moments he considered impressive by writing on a book or a computer even
without having to care about any aspects. By writing a personal diary, the people hope in the future, he may recall moments he had to tell and draw at
a time when the moment takes place. The only person who does the work as an astronaut who never set foot on the moon for the first time, Neil
Armstrong. He writes a diary while he feels the moment is an event that he considers that it is a historic event for the whole human being himself even
in the earth, and should be remembered in the future. Armstrong faced an even bigger challenge in 1969. Along with
Michael Collins and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, he was part of NASA’s first manned mission to the moon. The trio ware launched into space on July 16,
1969. Serving as the mission’s commander, Armstrong piloted the Lunar Module to the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969, with Buzz Aldrin aboard.
Collins remained on the Command Module.
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On the sidelines of the mission, Armstrong writes some stories of mission experience that he feels. The diary contains about his mood and
describes the situation surrounding. Diary has one of character and it can be
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Meriam-Webster “Diary”, the article accessed on April 22, 2015, from http:www.merriam-
webster.comdoictionarydiary
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Biography “Neil Armstrong”, the article accessed on April 22, 2015, from http:www.biography.compeopleneil-armstrong-9188943moon-landing
easy to see the subjective presence
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. It becomes a criterion to do this research.
Through the diary written by Neil Armstrong, the researcher tries to examine the diary by hooking with discourse analysis approach from
linguistics. One theory that can be used to analyze this case is the appraisal system.
Appraisal is a system of interpersonal meaning. Appraisal is
concerned with evaluation: the kinds of attitudes that are negotiated in text, the strength of the feelings involved and the ways in which values are
sourced and readers align.
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Appraisal systems analysis approach comes from the development of the theory of Systemic Functional Grammar in the realm
of interpersonal meaning, can be seen whether the attitudes contained in the story and attitude applications that are used by the manufacturer of the story.
All kinds of attitudes of this theory will produce words value: positive or negative.
Therefore, the researcher will analyze a little part of Neil Armstrong’s personal diary of the realm of interpersonal of his meaning
using appraisal theory approach.
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J.R. Martin and P. R. R. White, Language of Evaluation, London: Palgrave Macmillan,2005,p.1
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J.R. Martin and D. Rose, Working with Discourse, London: Continuum,2003,p.22