Appraisal motif
The emotions, judgments, and appreciations of SBY he
condemn the brutal act of
terrorism Social distance
Maximal
In an attempt to classify interpersonal meaning contained in SBY’s speech, based on the table above, there are three points which need to be understood first.
They are Mood Selection, Person Selection, and Appraisal Motif which each of them is described below.
a. Mood Selection
It deals with who gives the order, who ask the questions, who makes the offers, who gives information, and the responses of the addresses, that is who remains silent,
who agrees, contradicts, or refuses to participate. Since the data is a speech from president SBY to the people of Indonesia, then
the mood selection which is mostly used is declarative giving some information through some utterances but there is also a form of imperative demanding some
goods and services through some commands. The declarative can be seen in the following sentence:
[12] This morning, just like I used to do, I wanted to come personally to the location
[of the attack]. But the Chief of Police and others suggested I should wait, since the area was not yet secure.
The bold sentence shows the declarative, meanwhile the rest of it is the responses from Chief of Police and others concern with what SBY said SBY’s declarative
sentence. While imperative can be seen in this bold sentence:
[13] To all intelligence reports, whether they are related to the bombing or not, I have instructed to all law enforcers
to perform their duties correctly, objectively, decisively and lawfully.
b. Person Selection
It deals with first person, second person, and third person. Each “person” has a different perspective, a “point of view,” and the three points of view have singular
and plural forms. The singular form of the first person is “I,” and the plural form is “we.” Besides “I” and “we,” other singular first person pronouns include “my,” “us,”
and “our”. The second-person point of view is to address the reader. The second person uses the pronouns “you,” “your,” and “yours.” Meanwhile the third-person
uses “he,” “she,” or “it” when referring to certain things.
The fact, in SBY’s speech there are some personal pronoun which are used, they are ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘they’, and ‘their’. Based on the definition above,
it can be said that the most dominant person selections used in that speech is the first person point of view. Another reason why first person point of view dominating,
because SBY himself who speak in that speech.
c. Appraisal Motif
