find Halliday’s register in Sinar 2003: 48 that he sees as something linguistic being understood as something contextual i.e. situational by others.
In the global and general modelling of language and context, all the existing models of GSFLT generally share the same conceptual views. For example, they
would share the same views as expressed in statements such as these : 1 language does not live in isolation but it lives in environments, social environments i.e. social
contexts, 2 to understand language is to see how and why language means what it does in social contexts, 3 to understand language is to relate language to the social
contexts in which it lives, 4 to understand language is to see how language users use language to talk to each other, 5 the relationship between language and social
contexts is one of mutual engendering: language construes the social contexts in which language users live, and it is at the same time construed by the social contexts,
and 6 the relationship is one of realisation: language as a semiotic system realises social context as a social system, Sinar 2003: 49.
2.2.2.1 Context of Situation
Language is a social semiotics system and exists in a context. As a semiotics system, language socializes with other semiotics system and borrows them, such as
context of situation. The relationship between language and the context is a language realization as the social semiotics system. In other words, language is the existence of
something in the context and there is no language without the social context in Sinar 2008: 53.
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The social context system is at the level of the language connotative semiotics which consists of the contexts of situation, culture and ideology so that, in
investigating the language, an interpretation which is focused on the text, has to notice its social domain that is contexts of situation register, culture genre and
ideology. The whole contexts relates to the characteristic of text linguistics language. Halliday in Sinar 2008: 53 connects the contexts of situation to 3
functions of language – determine the speaker’s relation, elaborates the experience of the speaker in social activity, combine the agreement process, and analyzes all
contexts as a significant discourse. In the context of situation’s perspective, the term situational and “discoursal”
can be understood and interpretated by the expert of systemic with a different way. For example: The noun for situational term, such as: “situation”, is used to represent
Systemic-Functional Linguistic Theory’ space of concept semiotics “context of situation” or register as a variety in language or register.
According to Halliday and Gregory in Sinar 2008: 53 register has 2 main dimensions, that is 1 semiotics dimension “dialectical”, and 2 semiotics dimension
“diatipic”. In this occassion, dialectical dimension consists of “language in context based on the user” or which has a conceptual category, such as: dialects of social,
geographical, variety of sub-cultural standard and non standard languages, language variable caste, social class, age, sex, etc which includes in sociolinguistics
discussion.
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Whereas the dimension of diatipic, consists of ‘language-in context based on the usage’, or as a way conveying the language. The language variety is seen from
semantics knowledge’s and realized through the lexicogrammatica, there is a conceptual category ‘field of discourse’, tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse.
In register discussion, component placement of functional tenor of discourse and the mode of discourse. Gregory in Sinar 2008: 54 discusses functional tenor of
discourse that refers to phatic, exposition, didactic, persuasive, order and narration. Thus, Halliday and Hasan in Sinar 2008: 54 discuss the component of a rhetorical
mode that refers to the aim which will be reached by the text that can be different, but it depends on the characteristics of text persuasive, exposition, didactic, and others.
By following Systemic Functional Linguistics, the function of language organization intrinsic interacts with the function of language organization extrinsic of context of
situation. The field of discourse has a close relationship with Ideational Function, the tenor of discourse with Interpersonal Function, and the mode of discourse with
Textual Function. The division of register as a semiotics system of context of situation with genre as the semiotics system of context of culture brings an important
discovery in the development of Systemic Functional Theory. Halliday in Sinar 2003: 40 uses the same term “register” to refer to functional
variation of language as an aspect of a separate dimension of organization within language.
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2.2.2.2 Context of Culture
