l Julie Eckersleys Sibyl a delightful
creation and Phillip Cameron Smiths more playing was just right for victor.
Jodie Levesconte was a superb French maid. James Macleans set captures the
thirties atmosphere with many subtle- touches
All involve deserve the highest praise
Gerot and Wignell, 1994:219
I. Register
A texts have to be understood in relation to their context of situation and context to their context of culture. The register theory has correlation with the
context of situation. Frame works for analyzing context of situation are: - The participant in the situation. It is referred to as persons and
personalities, the statuses and role of the participants. - The Action of the participant what they are doing, both verbal action
and non-verbal action. - Other relevant features of the situation : surrounding object and event
- The effect of verbal action what changes were brought by the participant in he situation had to say. Martin,1992:p. 497.
Meanwhile, Halliday defined register as the configuration of semantic resources that the member of the culture associates with a situation type. It is the
meaning potential that is accessible in a given social context Halliday in Martin, 1992: 498. Defining register in these terms pushes consideration of context refers
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into field, tenor, and mode. Register can be simply called as language variation based on the use. In
this case, register is not only limited on the choice of word but also the choice of text structure, texture: cohesion and lexicogrammar, phonology and graphology
Santoso, 2003: 47. So it can be concluded that the variation of language at register is influenced by the context situation as mentioned above, covering three
variables: field, tenor, and mode. a. Field
Field is the social action, “what is actually taking place”. It refers to what is happening to the nature of the social action that is taking place.
What is that the participant are engaged in which the language figures as some essential component Halliday Hassan, 1985:12 . Field is used to
predict experiential meaning. In a text, field can be seen through text structure, cohesion, system, transitivity, clause system, group system
nominal, verbal, and adjunct, and lexical system abstraction and technicality Santoso, 2003:50.
b. Tenor Tenor is the role structure who is taking part to the nature of the
participants, their status and role. Martin 1992:53 states tenor is the element of discourse which is concerned about the negotiation of social
relationship among participant. Tenor is used to predict interpersonal meaning, and so is realized primarily through the interpersonal
lii metafunction in language. Tenor mediates the relationships among three
aspects: status, contact, and affect. Status describes the writer relationship among participants, whether they are equal or unequal, horizontal or
vertical. Contact deals with the degree of involvement among interlocutors, while affect refers to the judgment or assessment among the
participants. Affect focuses on the emotional charge of participants to suggest basic contrast between positive and negative.
c. Mode
According to Halliday Hasan 1985:12, mode refers to what part of language is playing, what it is that the participants are expecting the
language for them in the context. Mode is the projection to predict textual meaning.
Mode consists of channel and media. Channel is the use of the text which suggests whether the language used tends to be writer or spoken,
including rhetorical function of language such as persuasive, expository, didactic, and so forth. This can be identified through nominal group,
verbal group, clause system, and lexical density Halliday, 1985. Then media in which the language is expressed, suggest whether the language is
suitable or not with the medium Santoso,2003.
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