tour guides deliver information affects the understanding of tourists in receiving it. It also shows how a tour guide negotiates information to foreign tourists by
analyzing Mood, Modality, and Attitudes. Based on the explanation above, I am interested in conducting a study entitled “The Interpersonal Meanings of
Conversations between a Tour Guide and Foreign Tourists in Prambanan Temple
”.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
After explaining about the background of the study, I have some interesting reasons to choose the topic about analyzing interpersonal meanings on
conversations between a tour guide and foreign tourists in Prambanan Temple. First, tour guides are people who need to communicate with foreign
tourists from all over the world with different English competence because not all foreign tourists use English as their first language. Some of them use English as
their second language, for example those who are from India and Malaysia. Meanwhile, some of them use English as a foreign language such as Japan and
Korea. I want to show that although English is not as the first or second language in Indonesia, tour guides can communicate with foreign tourists well and
understandable. Second, the function of language based on interpersonal function is
making meaning. I am interested in analyzing the system of language or language structure used by foreign tourists and the use of language to exchange meaning by
analyzing their Mood, Modality, and Attitude.
Third, most of the previous studies of interpersonal meanings have been studied by the students of English Department of State University of Semarang
are one way communication such as speech. Therefore, I am interested in analyzing two way communication such as conversation. Furthermore, this study
directly observes from the subjects of the data, the tour guide and foreign tourists. It is more complex than analyzing speech, novel, or song because the subject of
the data is more than one person. The analysis of interpersonal meanings on conversation is more complicated because different subject may deliver their idea
using different mood, modality, and attitude. Fourth, by analyzing the conversations between a tour guide and tourists
in Prambanan Temple, I learn and show about the culture, history, folktales, and the beauty of Prambanan, one of Indonesia‟s tourism icon.
1.3 Research Questions
