Based on these related studies, I conduct my research using SFL supported by the theory of register because the data that I use for my research is short story
therefore I suppose that it is needed because what we call by literary text absolutely refer to social setting
of certain society and ‗Clara‘ in this case has a background of human tragedy of 1998 happens in Indonesia but even though it is
derived from particular setting, it can be mirror what really happen in it therefore the register theory is supposed important to use. The same with but different form
what these journals and article above propose, I conduct my research entitle A Metafunction Analysis o
n Seno Gumira Ajidarma‟s „Clara‟, The English Translation Version. This title is the same with some journals above because it
uses metafunctions as its title and analysis but it different from above journals because this research includes the analysis of logical meaning analysis while
above are not. Another differences are that this research use short story for its data analysis while above are speech and scientific texts and furthermore that the text
that I use is English translation version which is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia then translated into English so that there some situational factors which
can not be translated into English contextually.
2.2 Theoretical Framework
As mentioned previously that this study deals with SFL and register theory including meta-function meaning interpersonal, relational and textual and field,
mood, and tenor indicating the situational context of text. The use of SFL and register theory in this research based on assumption that literary works is not as
iconic objects set apart from a world of intention and effect, but as a socially determined communicative practice between reader and writer, and, as such,
analogous to other forms of communication. In short that literary work however constitutes the social context, therefore, both theories are used to specify the
situational context of the text analyzed. The use SFL deals with the answer to the first research question
‗What meta-
functions are applied in Clara?‘ which uncover the three types of meaning; ideational, interpersonal and textual meaning while register theory and work for
the second research question ‗What register devices are used in the meta-functions to reveal the ideologies in Clara?.‘ The register devices; mode, tenor and field
which respectively stand for amount of feedback and role of language mode, role relations of power and solidarity tenor and topic or focus of the activity
field are associated by SFL. These three devices according Eggins, 2004: 9 function to explain our intuitive understanding that we will not use language in
the same way to write as to speak mood variation, to talk to our boss as to talk to our lover tenor variation and to talk about linguistics as to talk about jogging
field variation. These three devices help to illustrate any socio-linguistic occurrence.
Mode describes the way the language is being used in the speech interaction, including the medium spoken, written, written to be spoken, etc. as well as the
rhetorical mode expository, instructive, persuasive, end of thinking opacity these three elements make the writer literary maker possible to orient himself in the
context of situation. Tenor refers to the social relation existing between the interact acts in a speech situation. It includes relations of formality, power, and
affect manager clerk, father son. It influences interpersonal choices in the linguistic system, and thereby it affects role the structures and the strategies
chosen to activate the linguistic exchange, while Field refers to the subject matter what is happening, to whom, where and when, why it is happening.
CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter elaborates the methodology of the research working to achieve the objectives of this research. It consists of the explanations of object of
the study, type of the research, procedure of data analysis and method taken to analyze the collected data. Due this study is meta-function, a study refers to
systemic functional linguistics SFL, I therefore propose the concepts of SFL and method thoroughly in the previous chapter and this chapter.
3.1 Object of the Research
The data of this study is English translated transcript of Clara native to Indonesian short story written by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. This short story is
grounded in 1998 humanity tragedy happen in Indonesia. Clara is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia entitled Clara Atawa Gadis yang Diperkosa then
Michael H. Bodden, a professor of Southeast Asia studies program in University of Victoria translated it into English and the data that I use for this study is the
English translated transcript downloaded from www.warscapes.com. In this 2.747 word and 222 clause short story, the description of political situation of
Indonesian around 1998, the warfare between the bourgeois Chinese and indigenous Indonesian, and how those bourgeoisies had been treated by
‗Indonesian‘ are specified and described. As narrated in ‗Clara‘, the Chinese ethnics became the object of the Indonesian abhorrence; they finally experienced a
bad treatment such as torturing, raping and even killing. Clara was taken for the object of this research analyzed by applying the systemic functional linguistics
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