Thesis Organization Systemic Functional Linguistics

1.6. Thesis Organization

The thesis is organized as follows: Chapter I Introduction. This chapter consist of Background of the Study, Statement of the Problem, Objectives of the study, Scope of the Study, Significance of The Study, and Organization of the Thesis. Chapter II Review of Related Literature. This chapter explains some theories supporting this thesis: they are Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, Appraisal System, and The Jakarta Post. Chapter III Research Method. This chapter consists of Research Design, Unit of Analysis, Source of Data, Technique of Data Collection, and Technique of Data Analysis. Chapter IV Findings and Discussion. This chapter presents and discusses the analysis of the data. Chapter V Conclusion and Suggestion. This chapter consists of the conclusion of the research and suggestion for the further research. CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE In this chapter several points related to the topic of the thesis will be addressed. The first point is about Systemic Functional Linguistics. The second and third point are about Appraisal Theory and Appraisal System. Appraisal System is the realization of interpersonal meaning in a text which is made up of several devices. The last point is about The Jakarta Post and The Editorial. It is related with the source of data to be analyzed. The discussion in detail about these issues is presented in the last.

2.1. Systemic Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistic SFL is a study of functions and semantics which is claimed to be the basis of human language and communicative activity. Systemic Functional Linguistic or Systemic Functional Grammar is a model of grammar developed by MAK Halliday 1985. He developed a theory of the fundamental of language, in which he analyzed lexicogrammar into three broad of metafunction: ideational, interpersonal and textual. Ideational metafunction uses language to represent experience. This indicates the ideational or experiental meaning. Interpersonal metafunction uses language to encode interaction and thus express interpersonal meaning. Textual metafunction uses language to organize our experiental and interpersonal meaning into a coherent spoken or written language. In this research, the researcher would focus on investigating the interpersonal metafunction areas. Basically, interpersonal metafunction is a meaning about the social roles and relationships between or among participant. Besides, it is also about the status and roles of the participants and who are taking part in the text. Interpersonal metafunction has been developed by White 1998 into appraisal system to know how the authorial positions and to know how the readers are positioned in the text.

2.2. Appraisal Theory