interpreted as networks of interlocking options Halliday, 1985: xiv. It is also a functional one because the conceptual framework on which it is based is a
functional rather than a formal one. It is based on the conceptualization of language as a resource of meaning rather than on the conceptualization of
language as a system of rules. It explains how language is used rather than how language is formed. It is clear when Halliday also states that every text-
everything-that is said or written unfolds in some context of use. Furthermore, he states that this study is functional in 3 distinct sense of text, of the system,
and of the elements of linguistics structure Halliday, 1985: xiii. The fundamental components of meaning in language are functional
components. Halliday 2002: 198 introduces three functional modes of meanings of language from the point of the semantic system: 1 ideational
experiential and logical; 2 interpersonal; and 3 textual. He states that they are ‘different kinds of meaning potential that relate to the most general
functions that language has evolved to serve’. Furthermore, Martin in English Text states that Halliday refers to these different types of meaning as
metafunctions-the experiential, the interpersonal, and the textual respectively 1992: 8.
2. Interpersonal Meaning
Halliday 1970:140-165 states that the context of a situation is arranged in three categories namely field, tenor and mode. In relation with
that, Halliday analyzes language into three broad metafunctions those are experiential, interpersonal and textual metafunctions. However, Gerot and
Wignell 1995:22 state that clauses signal three types of meaning namely ideational, textual and interpersonal. Ideational meanings are about things and
ideas that are realized in the clause. Meanwhile, textual meanings are realized contextually
and con-textually
in lexicogrammar
through thematic,
information systems and cohesion. Halliday 1985: 20 explains that ‘whereas in its experiential meaning language is a way of reflecting, in its interpersonal
meaning language is a way of acting’. Interpersonal meaning views language from point of views of its
function in the process of social interactions. According to Gerot and Wignell 1994:13, the interpersonal meanings are meanings which express a speaker’s
attitudes and judgments. These are meanings for acting upon and with others. Interpersonal meaning, according to Butt 2001:86 is one of the most basic
interactive distinction is between using language to exchange information and using it to exchange goods and services. These meanings are most centrally
influenced by tenor whowhat kind of person produced this text? For whom? of discourse.
Interpersonal meanings focus on the interactivity of the language, and concern the ways in which we act upon one another through language. In
either spoken texts or written texts, an interlocutor expects to tell listenersreaders via text. This means that each text has a relationship between
providers and recipients of information. The analysis of interpersonal meaning deals with two components, are
mood element and residue element of the clause. The mood element includes
