Establishing Social Relation Language as the Representation of the Ideology and Power

The interpersonal theme shows the use of the vocative which is effective to invite the people to agree on his ideology. It also shows that Obama is aware of his position which is the leader of America. Having the highest position in the state means is what enables him to speak to all Americans in such way. There is also the use the projecting clauses using mental or verbal process that make a strong stance of the speaker toward the idea that he speak about. He does not use the projecting clause in the form of indirect address but he uses it to speak on the behalf of the people. This choice shows that a speaker has a strong conviction on the topic he talks about. The last thing considered important in the textual function analysis is the marked circumstantial adjunct. By placing the circumstantial adjuncts as marked theme, Obama drives the people to have the same framework to the matter that is spoken that results as a positive attitude toward his term of service. This is seen from how he sets the message to be first affected by the circumstance he puts in the initial position of the sentences.

B. Suggestion

The way discourse is structured does not merely expose the tangible goal of the speaker. The addressees are influenced to accept those goals as theirs and unconsciously become the subject of power. They no longer produce the meaning based on the self-reasoning and also do not realize that other importance has affected the way they act and think. This study does the critic to the attempt which tries to keep the status quo of social condition which is stabilized to serve the power. Within CDA framework, it tries to provide the way to interpret Obama‘s addresses where the shared norms and values happen to wrap the concealed interest that will ideologically affect the policies and the regulations made in governing, especially in the discourse of economy. This study, thus, invites the readers to build the self-awareness which frees them in thinking and acting upon the social condition so that it also frees them from the dogmatic independency. However, this thesis is limited only in the inaugural addresses of Obama and has limited comparison to the addresses which are delivered by the same speaker elsewhere. Further researcher who might be interested in discussing discourse of Obama is therefore suggested to look at more related addresses to see how a certain discourse might be developed in the other occasion outside the president inauguration moment. If one wishes to use the Critical Discourse Analysis method and the Systemic Functional Linguistic analysis of a text, he better employs more related background and the current condition of social, political, cultural, and economy which surrounds the production of a text in order to provide a context of situation. These aspects when elaborated will strengthen the argumentation of the findings.