dialogues. There are 39 interrogative mood found in the dialogues. Dialogues 2 and 9 have the highest proportion of interrogative mood. It portrays that the
dialogues focus on demanding information. The number of the interrogative mood is approximately 39. The imperative clause employed in the dialogues
indicates that the dialogues are doing more than simply giving information. The information it gives has the potential to be packaged as a goods and
service. There were only 3 imperative mood found in the dialogues.
4.1.2. Transitivity Analysis
In this section, each dialogue will be analyzed for transitivity. The transitivity analyses are grouped into several categories, namely material,
mental, verbal, behavioral, existential, relational attributive, relational identifying and possessive. The functional grammatical description of the
transitivity structure of English clauses can be seen to select for a process type material, mental, behavioral, verbal, existential and relational. The process
type specifies the action, events or relationship between implicated participants. The process may be situated circumstantially for time, place,
cause,etc..Carrying out a transitivity analysis involves determining the process type, participants and circumstances. The following table will
summarize the results of the analyses of transitivity analysis class on the basis of the dialogues found in Erlangga textbook entitles English on Sky for grade
VIII. There are about ten dialogues found in the textbook.
Table. 4.2. Transitivity analysis of the dialogue
Process Type
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10 Total
no of each
category
Material
6 2 3 2 - - 9 6 18 7 53
Mental
3 - 1 - - - 6 2 1 2 15
Verbal
1 - - - - - - - - - 1
Behavioral
- - - - - - - - - - -
Existential
- - - 1 1 - 1 1 5 - 9
Relational: Attributive
2 1 - 4 - 1 3 - 2 3 16
Relational: Identifying
1 2 1 1 - - 3 - - 1 9
Possessive
- - - - - - 1 - - - 1
Total no. of Process
13 5 5 8 1 1 23 9 16 13 94
As the table shows, material processes are dominant in all dialogues. This indicates that the dialogues are centrally concerned with actions and events,
and the participants who carry them out. There are 53 material processes found in the dialogues. Dialogue 9 has the highest proportion of material
processes. The dialogues mostly use material process. It signifies that those dialogues are predominantly about, tangible physical actions. The presence of
existential in dialogue 9 suggests that these actions are sometimes framed as taking place within settings which are asserted simply as existing. There are 9
existential processes found in the dialogues. The highest proportion of mental process in dialogue 7 shows that conscious cognition, rather than bodily
behavior. There are 15 mental processes found in the dialogue. Dialogue 4 has the highest proportion of relational processes. The attributives dominate the
relational category. This also indicates that the dialogue is more descriptive. There are about 16 attributive sentences found in all dialogues. However, there
are some proportions of identifying processes. The number of identifying
process is about 9 processes. In addition, there is only one possessive processes found in the dialogues.
4.1.3. Textual Analysis
