TENOR IN JOKOWI AND AHOK’S CONVERSATIONS.

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TENOR IN JOKOWI AND AHOK’S CONVERSATIONS

A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the

Degree of Sarjana Sastra

By:

INA RAY PATICK Reg. No. 209220020

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The writer’s supreme praise and gratitude go to Heavenly Father and

Jesus Christ for blessings, mercy, guidance, strength, and help which have been

given to her so she can finish this thesis well.

This thesis was written in order to fulfill one of the requirements to obtain the degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Department of Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

In the completion of this thesis, the writer was greatly indebted to many people which without their help; she will not be able to complete this thesis properly. Therefore, on this occasion the writer would like to express her gratitude and appreciation to:

Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si. as the Rector of State University

of Medan.

Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum. as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and

Arts, State University of Medan and to all her staffs.

Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd. as the Head of English Department, Rika, S.Pd., M.Hum. as the Secretary of English Department, Dra. Meisuri, MA. as the Head of Non-Educational English Program, and Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed. as the Head of Educational English

Program, thanks for their educational and non-educational help during the writer’s academic years in English Department of State University of Medan.

Drs. Johan Sinulingga, M.Pd. as the writer’s Thesis Supervisor and Academic Counselor who has given advice, support during her study, and helped her patiently finishing this thesis by giving guidance, constructive suggestions, correction, and motivation, since the preliminary manuscript until the completion of this thesis.

Dr. Anni Holila Pulungan, M.Hum., Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd., and Dra.Tjut Ernidawaty, M.Pd. as The Examiner who has given advice. All lecturers of English Department for lessons, advices and useful

knowledge.

The best family of the author, the truly inspiring number one man, her Dad, Mr. Rudolf. Samosir, her beloved Mom, Mrs. Menty. Gultom, her Sister Cahaya Samosir, and her Brothers Patuan Samosir and Julius

Samosir, for their endless love, support, encouragement, motivation,

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The writer’s special alphabet: Harna, Ines, Three Idiots (Bowo, Lupi,

Gons), Handrian, Irham, Habib, Ati, Dessy, Rosa, Tria, and Sant’Egidio Community Medan, for the friendship, love, helps, laughter

and tears, and for all the bittersweet memories shared. Jonthon Coulson, and Maam Winda, for their motivation and support to encouraged the writer during her bad times. She loves them all the way and will never forget them.

All seniors and juniors in English Department who have helped her

during the study and help her with her thesis, especially to Mariati and

Agatha. It means a lot to her. All of the writer’s friends in Applied

Linguistics A and B 2009-2011, and also English Education 2009, thank

you for the love, having a great time studying, having spesial time and having lunch at pondok and under the stairs. She will be missing those memories.

Everyone who has been involved directly or indirectly in the writing of this thesis that can not be mentioned one by one, and thanks for all the memories that the writer got during her study at her beloved campus. Thank you very much. May God bless us all. Amin.

Medan, March 2014

The Writer,

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ABSTRACT

Ina Ray Patick. NIM 209220020. Tenor in Jokowi and Ahok’s Conversations. A Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan 2014

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of The Study

Language is a part of culture. Language as a meaning has a very important function in daily life. People need language to interact with others because they cannot live isolated. That is the reason people use language, because language is a network of relationship. According to Halliday (2002) one of the functions of language is to provide for interaction between people, by allowing the expression of statuses, judgments, and the like; and this includes participation in linguistic interaction. Language itself defines as the roles which people may take situations in which they are communicating with one another. Many factors influence the use of language, social factor is one of them. Certain factors like the social context of the talk, to which people are talking to, the function and the topic of discussion turn out to be important for language choice in many different kinds of speech community. The factors that are mentioned turn out to be the cause of language variety.

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register, truck drivers’ register, school register, and military register. A register is

related to social context.

Register consists of three types; they are Field, Mode and Tenor. Field concerns with the topic of situation or in another word what is going on or what activity is taking place. Mode is about who takes part in a situation and where the situation takes place. Meanwhile, Tenor deals with things that influence the situation. How the social role relationship is played by addressee and addresser.

This study attempts to discuss one of the three types of register, it is Tenor. The source text in this study is the Scripts of Jokowi’s Conversations. Tenor, that is interpersonal meaning, is concerned more with the interaction between the speaker and addressee; influence his behavior and how the speaker expresses his viewpoint. Tenor is then identifiable through the analysis of the mood, modality and evaluation. In short, tenor sees how participants work together so that they can maintain the communication process to reach their objectivities. Tenor also proposes a direct claim about the link between language and context. The claim, then, is that these aspects of our role occupation in a given situation will have an impact on how we use language.

People sometimes don’t realize the way they speak can show the aspects

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The script sample of Jokowi and Ahok’s Conversations can be seen as the following:

"Warga Jakarta yang kuhormati dan kucintai, sebelumnya ijinkan saya untuk memberikan pidato penutup kampanye Pemilihan Kepala Daerah (Pilkada) DKI Jakarta putaran kedua yang berlangsung selama tiga hari ini, saya Joko Widodo bersama Basuki Tjahaja Purnama hendak menawarkan sebuah gebrakan perubahan untuk Jakarta," ucap Jokowi.

"Jakarta residents who I respect and love, allow me to give a campaign speech cover local elections (elections) Jakarta second round, which lasted for three days, I Joko Widodo with Tjahaja Basuki Purnama want to offer a breakthrough change to Jakarta," said Jokowi

The aspects of tenor from this script sample can be seen as the below. Power: Equal

Formality: Formal Affect: Positive Contact: Infrequent

It can be seen that Jokowi’s statement has the equal status with the addressee,

although he is a governor of Jakarta.

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When they were nominated as the Governor and Deputy Governor of Jakarta, many people doubt their ability, even until they were elected. But, after one year their guiding, many significant progress were done by them.

The writer interested to discuss tenor because by analyzing can be found how the speaker influence the listener. The author selects Jokowi and Ahok as an object for her thesis because they are a Governor and Deputy Governor of Jakarta who had a great influence in the political sphere.

B. The Problem of the Study

The problems of this study are formulated as the following:

1. How are power, formality, and contact realized in Jokowi and Ahok’s conversations?

2. How is the affective involvement employed in Jokowi and Ahok’s conversations?

3. Why is tenor relationship realizing the way it is?

C. The Objective of the Study

The objectives of the study are to describe:

1. How the power, formality, and contact are used in Jokowi and Ahok’s conversations realized

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3. How the contact in Jokowi’s conversations are realized.

D. The Scope of the Study

The study is to describe how are the formality, the status, the contact, and the affection involvement in Jokowi and Ahok’s Conversations. Specifically the study involves understanding of Jokowi and Ahok with the audience.

E. The Significance of the Study

Theoritically, the results of this study are expected to be useful for:

1. The students and readers who want to know about tenor, especially for those who like Jokowi and Ahok.

2. Give some valuable contribution to other researchers.

Practically, the results of this study are expected to be useful for:

1. Speaker, to give information about how to speak well aaccording to the place and situation.

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusion

After analyzing the aspects of tenor that were used by Jokowi and Ahok in their utterances, she following conclusion were drawn:

1. The utterances of Jokowi and Ahok often used equal status, but sometimes they used unequal status that made themselves in same position as the audience or lower than the addressee. Jokowi and Ahok have infrequent contact when delivering their utterances. It is proven that they never used nick name of a person although they just called someone by just his/her name without his/her title. Jokowi and Ahok used formal language in formality, but Jokowi mostly used informal when he did blusukan.

2. In affective involvement, Jokowi and Ahok used high involvement. They often showed their pride and thankfulness in delivering their utterances. They thanked to people that give them honor in delivering their utterances and to the audience who are listening and supporting them in their speech. This shows the speakers have made a big influence in public speaking, especially as a politician in governmental.

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B. Suggestion

Concerning to the conclusion, it is suggested that:

1. For students, it was suggested to know about tenor in order to be able to speak in front of many people in proper way.

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