SPEECH FUNCTION AND MOOD IN THE 2014 INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATESDEBATE

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  • JuniArta Sari Tambunan and Amrin Saragih

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https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v4i1.6657

Abstract

This study deals with Speech Function and Mood used in the 2014 Indonesian
Presidential Candidates Debate. This study was conducted by using descriptive
qualitative method. The purpose of this study is to find out the types of Speech
Function and Mood used in the debate based on Halliday™s theory. The data of
this study were the utterances of both President Candidates, namely Jokowi Dodo
and PrabowoSubianto. The findings show that both President candidates used all
types of Speech Function in the debate, which Statement are 464 utterances
(82.71%), Question are 51 utterances (9.09%), Command are 34 utterances
(6.06%) and Offer are 12 utterances (2.14%). It is also found that they use
congruent and metaphorical realization of Mood in debating. The use of
Congruent Mood of declarative are 469 utterances (83.6%), Interrogative are 49
utterances (8.73%), and Imperative are 33 utterances (5.89%). Meanwhile the
metaphorical realization of Declarative are 7 utterances (1.24%), Interrogative are
2 utterances (0.36%) and Imperative only 1 utterance (0.18%). Statement as the
most dominant type of speech function in this debate shows thatJokowi and
Prabowoare mostly giving information in order to deliver their future plans and
ideas in the form of proposition, promise and persuasion, to strengthen the
arguments and to convey messages logically in a limited time, so that the hearer/
people of Indonesia interested in choosing him as the next President. And the use
of congruent or metaphorical realization in this debate implies that both Jokowi
and Prabowo are able to give and to response arguments logically in different
ways.

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Published

2015-01-01

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): (JAN-MARCH)

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SPEECH FUNCTION AND MOOD IN THE 2014 INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATESDEBATE. (2015). LINGUISTICA, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v4i1.6657