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such as at phonological level special stress and intonation, morphological level choice of archaic lexical items along with the morphological process, syntactic level phrases
and clauses and rhetorical strategies, such as pleonasm and hyperbole. The absence of any of the above features will only result in the disappearance of the communicative
aspects and cultural heritage that characterize and distinguish Pranatacara discourse, as also stated by the expert ‘Wah la punika Pak Karno ingkang kedah dipun uri-uri mboten
kenging dipun ewahi, amargi menawi dipun ewahi lajeng mangke kecalan ‘ruh’ ipun Well, that’s it, Mr. Karno. It should be preserved and cannot be changed because if it is
changed, it will lose its ‘generic spirit’ See Appendix 3.
4.10 Theoretical Contributions
Basically, the study has proved to have theoretical contributions, namely first of all, in general, to confrm the notion that the Javanese language used by a Pranatacra
differs philosophically, phonologically, morphologically and syntactically from that used in daily communication exchanges.
Secondly, the appraisal theory is a very useful tool to analyze a text in terms of
interpersonal meanings despite the fact that the study indicates that ‘attitude’ one of the
appraisal systems is the most dominant in use. The next dominance of use is hetero-
glossic sentences in ‘engagement’, another form of the appraisal system in which
sentences are elaborated, expanded and enhanced. Meanwhile, ‘graduation’ the third system of appraisal is least used in which only one variable focus has been used.
Therefore it can be inferred that APPRAISAL theory is a really good development of
SFL Systemic Functional Linguistics from the domain of Interpersonal Meanings.
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It can be imagined how difficult it would be were not SFL’s interpersonal domain developed further into a theory called ‘APPRAISAL’. This is due to the fact that
the analysis of SFL with respect to interpersonal meanings relies heavily on the division
of MOOD and RESIDUE within a sentence. Meanwhile, it is difficult to separate
MOOD from RESIDUE in a sentence of a language which undergoes a lot of derivational processes in its morphological constructions, such as Javanese and Indonesian.
In Javanese the MOOD is not in the form of finite verb, which can be easily identified as the English finite verbs because Javanese finite verbs are derivational in
nature. The stem ‘tuku’ buy, for example, can become several finite verbs as ‘nukokke’ buy something for someone, ‘tetuku’ shopping, ‘dituku’ be bought by, ‘ditukokke’
be bought something by someone. While in English, all finite verbs are inflectional. That is why it is easy to identify which one is finite verb and which one is non-finite
verb.
However, SFL’s Thematic Structure analytical framework proves to be
useful in describing the interpersonal affects of an utterance despite the fact that thematic structure theme rheme structure belongs to the textual domain of meaning potential.
In English, it is, of course, quite otherwise. English has a clear-cut division between MOOD Subject + finite verb and RESIDUE the remaining elements because
it has a finite verb form which is inflectional. Threrefore, without any attempt to mitigate the success of SFL’s theoretical
framework, it might be too early to state that SFL can be considered as a universal tool for language analysis.
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Meanwhile, the study shows that the use of traditional analytical frameworks,
such as analyzing a language in terms of its phonological, morphological and syntactic constructions is still very much significant, especially in analyzing a language with a lot
of derivational processes, such as Javanese and Indonesian. Furthermore, the study also shows that a literary approach is still useful in
dealing with the beauty of language, such as the Javanese language as used by Pranatacara where figures of speech are heavily used either to create beauty or to
preserve the world cultural heritage.
In short, a combined approach Appraisal, Microlinguistic, and Literary
Analytical Frameworks proves effective for the investigation of the interpersonal meanings of a specifically-used form of Javanese.
4.11 Pedagogical Relevance
