Ideational Actor Pr:
Material Circ: Place
Topical Textual THEME
RHEME
4. Interrogative What
does he do as
a civil
servant? Interpersonal WhComp Finite Subject Pred
Complement RES…
MOOD ..IDUE
Ideational Actor
Pr:Mat Goal
Textual Topical THEME
RHEME 5. Interrogative
He serves people
Interpersonal Subject Finite Predicator Complement
MOOD RESIDUE
Ideational Actor Pr:mateial Goal
Textual Topical THEME
RHEME
6. Declarative Wow
It sounds
interesting Interpersonal Adj:Continuity Subject Fin
Pred Comp
MOOD RESIDUE
Ideational Senser
Pr: Mental
Phenomenon Textual Textual
Topical THEME
RHEME
3.2. Description of field of discourse of dialogue 3
1. Lexicogrammatical
Analysis of dialogue 3
Ideational meanings Interpretation
Process types
Material, Relational, Mental
Material : do , work,
serve Relational:
is The dialogue is conducted by two students.
They are Shanti and Shinta. The focus of the dialogue is asking for information between
peers. The information is about father’s job. There are three processes found in the dialogue
namely material, relational and mental process.
Mental : sound
Participants
Actor :the addressee, he, your father,
Goal : civil servant Token : He
Value : civil servant Senser : It
Phenomenon: interesting
Circumstances
Circumstance of place: in a government office
The processes are mainly material. The following part of the conversation exemplifies
the material process Shanti : What does your father do?
Shinta : He is a civil servant. The interrogative sentence “What does
your father do?”Indicates the use of material
process. The verb “do” indicates the action. The relational process used in the dialogue
indicates the identity of the actor. The sentence “he is a civil servant” shows identifying
process. “a civil servant” identifies the “he” or token in the dialogue. Moreover, the “he” in
the dialogue refers to the father. The appearance of mental process in the dialogue
reflects the cognitive. The cognitive in mental process portrays the job as a civil servant is a
good job. It is on the basis of what one of the students thinks about the job. In addition, the
circumstance of place: “in a government office” supports the mental process. It means a
good job as a civil servant should work in the government.
2. Contextual description of dialogue 3
Ideational meanings Interpretation
Experiential Domain
Two students are asking and giving information
about father’s job
Short-term goal:
Learning to identify the job’s of the father
Long-term goal:
Shanti’s curiosity to know the job’s of
Shinta’s father to maintain the relationship
between them. The preceding analysis was lexico-
grammatical analysis of dialogue. The further analysis is contextual description. There are
three categories of components within contextual description. They are experiential
domain, short-term goal and long term-goal. The experiential domain describes the focus of
the dialogue. The focus is exchanging information including asking and giving
information about father’s job. Shanti is asking for information about Shinta’s father. It is
indicated by the use of material process and the given information is indicated by the use
identifying process. However, the short-term goal in the dialogue is that Shanti learns to
identify Shinta’s father while the long-term goal is that what Shanti asks about is aimed to
maintain the relationship between them. A relationship as a friend.
3.3. Tenor of discourse of dialogue 3 1.
