Modality Analysis The Grammatical Features
expresses the high Usuality and positive meaning. It is the opposition to the preceding modals.
Table 4.8 Excerpts of Obligation
No. Modals
Degrees and Polarity
1. You have gotta die for your government?
You have gotta die for your country? S1.C1 High +
High + 2.
So if the heads of state want to end terrorism, they should go ahead and kill themselves
S14.C2 Mid +
3. We have got to make a change S14.C10
High + 4.
It’s time we should dig their ditch S9.C12 Mid +
Obligation shows the level of a matter does do and don’t. The do presented by the positive polarity and don’t presented by the negative polarity. All the
excerpts carry the positive polarity. About the degrees of Obligation, three excerpts are high Obligation and two excerpts are mid Obligation.
The first and third excerpt with the modal, have gotta or have got highlights that the actions of die for a country, die for the government and make a change
are must. The actions are obliged to do. However, the first excerpt is an interrogative sentence By using the interrogative sentence, the speaker has
intention to leade people for a reflection the citizens sacrifice for the country and government. The speaker has different judgment from the society which the
sacrifice is not necessary to do. The second and fourth excerpts have modal should. It highlights the actions of go ahead and kill themselves and dig their
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In the first excerpt, the speaker judges that the citizens ask about their submission of dying for their government and country. Dying for government and
country is a command of the authority. It is also an output of the national brainwashing. In the second excerpt, the speaker judges that the government is
required to kill themselves if they want to end terrorism. The speaker has intention to say that the terrorism is the govennment. In the third and fourth excerpts, the
speaker judges the obligation of making a change. The intention is to call society to make a change.
Talking about the ideologies conveyed in the excerpts, the first and second excerpts presents the anti-authritarian capitalism ideology while the third and
fourth excerpt are about the ideology of social movement.
Table 4.9 Excerpts of Inclination
No. Modals
Degrees and Polarity
1. When they call on me to die for them I will
say... not me S5.C9 High +
2. I will not sign my blind faith away to an
unjustly leader of the unjust police state. S14.C3
High -
3. We have really got those suckers fooled,
We have gotta em trained like rats S2.C2 High +
High + 4.
We will fight you till we die S6.C11 Mid +
The Inclination denotes three meanings of representation. The low as willingness, the mid can be glossed as intention, and the high as determination.
The high inclination represents the determination. The four excerpts are high Inclination and an excerpt is mid Inclination. About the polarity, the four excerpts
are the positive polarity and an excerpt is negative polarity. The inclination in the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
first excerpt means the action is determined to occur. The inclination in the second excerpt means that the process is not determined to occur. The third excerpt’s
inclination means the action is determined. In the fourth excerpt, the inclination means the action is intended to occur.
In the first excerpt, the modal highlights the speaker’s judgment about determination of the speaker to reject to die for the government and the State. The
speaker intends to declare the self-statement against the national brainwash: the calling to die for them. In the second excerpt, the speaker judges the signing blind
faith to the government. The speaker has intention to reject believe on the leader of the nation and the police state that they call it unjustly. The statement also
contains the feeling no proud for the nation. The inclination in the third excerpt presents speaker’s judgment about the determination to fight against the authority.
The speaker intends to call the society for the fighting. The fourth excerpt presents speaker’s judgment about the intention to submit life totally to fight against the
authority. The ideologies conveyed in the excerpts of Inclination are varying. The
first and second excerpts convey the ideology of anti-authoritarian nationalism. The third and fourth excerpts convey the ideology social movement.
Table 4.10 Excerpts of Ability
No. Modals
Degrees and Polarity
1. Cant you realize that the big business just
talk, talk, talk, talkin...like tax men at your door, fuckin knockin knockin knockin...
S7.C13 -
2. You can kill the protestor cant kill, you
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cant kill the protest S12.C7 -
3. Bullets cant silence ideas S12.C9b
-
Different from other types of modal meanings, the Ability has no degreelevel. The modal shows Ability is can. The Usuality in the three excerpts
has three negative polarity and a single positive polarity. The negative polarity expresses the inability of the actor to perform and action. On the contrary, the
positive polarity expresses the ability of performing an action. The modals that show inability present in first, second and third excerpts. For the second excerpt, it
is its second clause that shows inability. The first excerpt presents speaker’s judgment about society’s inability to
realize the big business talk. The talk means the appointment of the big business. The speaker intends to make society realize that the big businesses are similar to
the taxmen. Their appointments have no actuality. The first clause of the second excerpt presents speaker’s judgment about the ability of government to kill the
protestor. It also states the speaker’s intention to show the government ability is merely to kill the people the protestor. Another part of the second excerpt
presents speaker’s judgment about the inability of the government to kill the protest. The speaker has intention to underestimate the government and to state
the power of the protest. The third excerpt presents speaker’s judgment about the inability of the bullets to silence ideas. The bullets denote the effort of
government to stop to silence the protest ideas. The speaker intends to state that the government effort to stop the protest is useless.
It is visible through the analysis that each excerpt contains an ideology. The first excerpt contains the ideology of anti-authoritarian capitalism. The second and
third excerpts contain the ideology of social movement.