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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Praise be to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala who has given the blessing and mercy upon His permission so that the writer can finally finish this thesis entitled "An analysis of interpersonal function in Mario Teguh's Facebook status".
This thesis is compiled in order to fulfill one of the requirements to achieve a bachelor's degree (S1) in the Study Program Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
The writer realizes that the completion of this thesis could not be separated from the interference of various parties. That's why she wants to thank profusely and give the highest appreciation to the relevant parties.
With the completion of this thesis, the author would like to thank:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts for her leadership and administrative assistance during the process of
write this thesis.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English Department, Rika S.Pd., M.Hum., the Secretary of English Department, Dra. Meisuri,
writer thanks to her dear mother Mrs. Andranida and daddy dearest Mr. Syukri .
To her beloved husband and daughter, she thank them for all the prayers,
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Nadine Khanzalika Alya, thanks for always strengthening, encouraging at a time when she collapsed and had felt unable to do anything.
To the writer’s best friend, Giel Utami Putri, S.S., Henny Fauziah Harahap, S.S., and MISKA a.k.a Dede Purwadi, S.S., Irma Betharia Pakpahan, S.S., Fenty Triartha, S.S., Helena Aritonang, S.S., Adhy
Kurnia Putra Fasril, S.S., and Rafina, S.S. who always there to provide support, chanting prayers and seeks the help of all kinds related to the
completion of this thesis. Thank you for the sense of family that is so great
that even without blood ties.
Finally to Allah SWT., the writer asks that this effort would be as good deeds and be rewarded by Him. Shalawat and greetings hopefully poured to Prophet Muhammad Shallallaahu'alaihi wa Sallam and His family, His companions and followers until the end of the day, Aamiin.
Medan, April 2014
The writer,
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ABSTRACT
Akmala, Melva. 208222044. An Analysis of Interpersonal Function in Mario Teguh’s Facebook Status. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2013.
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C. Research Findings... 33
D. Discussion ... 34
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 40
A. Conclusions ... 40
B. Suggestions ... 41
REFERENCES ... 42
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LIST OF TABLES
Table Page
Table 2.1 Speech Role and Commodity in Interaction ... 12
Table 2.2 Realization of Speech Function in Mood ... 12
Table 2.3 Speech Function and Responses ... 13
Table 4.1 Total Number and Percentage of Speech Function ... 25
Table 4.2 Total Number and Percentage of Moods in Mario Teguh’s Facebook Status ... 28
Table 4.3 Speech Function Used in each of Mario Teguh’s Facebook Status ... 30
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix Page
A The Transcript of Selected Mario Teguh’s Facebook Status .. 44
B Identification of Speech Function as Part of Interpersonal
Function in Mario Teguh’s Facebook Status ... 54 C Identification of Moods as Part of Interpersonal Function in
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Every activity in human behavior that involves the use of vocal sounds in
meaningful patterns and corresponding written symbols to form, express and
communicate thoughts and feelings is called Language. The speaker conveys the
message or information to the listener, when someone communicates with other
people. The listener pays attention to many other factors apart from the language
itself, when receiving the message. It can be concluded that the communication is
the act of transmitting information from one person to another person. In addition
to exchanging information or thoughts and feelings, language can also be used to
offer goods or services, trade, adaptable, and also affects other people.
Studying about the meaning of the utterance is divided into two branches
of linguistic. They are Semantics and Pragmatics. The study of the relation
between linguistic forms and entities in the world, called Semantics; that is, how
words literally connects to things. Semantic analysis also attempts to establish the
relation between verbal description and state of affairs in the world as accurate
(true) or not, regardless of who produces that description. (
http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/jilka/teaching/Pragmatics/p1_intro.pdf) In other case, a
branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social in context and
called Pragmatics. It studies about the transmission of meaning depends not only
on the linguistic knowledge of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of
the utterance, knowledge, about the status of those involved, the inferred intent of
the speaker. (http://www.princeton.edu/wiki100k/docs/Pragmatics.html) Pragmatics
concerns with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or a writer)
and interpreted by a listener (or reader). The advantage of studying language via
pragmatics is that one can talk about people’s intended meanings, their
assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of actions that they are
performing when they speak.
There are some other studies also analyze about interpersonal function in
some different media. Purba (2012) analyzed interpersonal meaning in court room
text. The objectives of the study are to describe how the speech functions coded in
court room texts and to investigate the types of speech function used in court
room texts, the pattern on the use of speech functions, and why different types of
speech functions are used the ways they are. Siregar (2013) also analyzed
interpersonal function to investigate realizations of interpersonal function through
speech function and mood, but he used students’ English textbooks as the media
of the study.
The interpersonal function is an interesting phenomenon to be studied. It is
used to uncover the speech functions and moods in a spoken or written language.
It is the function of language to participate in communicative acts with another
person, to take on the role and express and understand the feelings, attitudes and
can take a conclusion about how people exchange their experience, how people
persuade each other, or how people tell advices through spoken or written
language, as those performed by Mario Teguh.
As we all know, Mario Teguh is one of the well-known motivator in
Indonesia. He even has had his own talk show on one of the private television
companies in Indonesia. It could not be denied that Mario has a lot of fans and
proved that he got the award from MURI as Motivator who has many fans in the
year 2010. The way he gave words of motivation is very alluring, because he is
always smiling, even joking once in a while. His words were never implicated in
any particular religion. Because of that, there are many groups of people like
Mario Teguh. He and his management team have now also make use of social
networking sites to get closer to the community. It can be seen from his Facebook
account that has thousands of friends and how many comments and status "like"
on every status created by him. In statuses that he had made in his Facebook
account, Mario Teguh also provides motivations and also his own experiences. Of
course, the occurring communication is one-way communication. But still, in this
case Mario Teguh, consciously or not, has been implementing interpersonal
function of language in his status on Facebook.
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004,
owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook)
One of the main purposes/uses of Facebook is to keep in touch with faraway
families and friends. People can also share their photographs and update their
Facebook has become a good ways to search information besides other search
engines. Because there are many public figures also use Facebook to share their
thoughts, as Mario Teguh do.
As an example, we can take one status from Mario’s Facebook account,
"Lalu saya ceritakan bahwa sebagai anak muda, saya dulu miskin, minder, dan
takut masa depan." From the sample, it can be determined that Mario Teguh using
a Speech Function Statement, and can be realized in the Declarative Mood.
Further example is from the sentence, "Doakanlah selalu kesehatan dan kebaikan
bagi Ibunda dan Ayahanda." Mario Teguh, consciously or not, in this sentence
has used Speech Function Command, and realized in the Imperative Mood.
From the above examples, we can draw a conclusion that Mario Teguh
applied Interpersonal Function as he makes his status on Facebook. And from the
explanation above, the writer found it interesting to analyze the Interpersonal
Function in status of Mario Teguh because this study will be useful to know
whether Mario Teguh apply Interpersonal Function every time he made a status,
how Mario Teguh develops his point of view in written text through interpersonal
function, and how often he uses certain types of Interpersonal Function in status
that he has made. This research offers more understanding about the interpersonal
function in Mario Teguh’s statuses on Facebook and it is useful as the first step in
B. Problems of the Study
Based on the explanation in the previous, the problems of the study are
formulated as follows:
1. What types of interpersonal functions are used in Mario Teguh’s statuses
on Facebook?
2. What is the most dominant type of interpersonal function that consists in
Mario Teguh’s statuses on Facebook?
C. Objectives of the Study
Based on the problems of the study, the objectives of the study are:
1. to find out the types of interpersonal functions used in Mario Teguh’s
statuses on Facebook.
2. to find out the dominant interpersonal functions used in Mario Teguh’s
statuses on Facebook
D. Scope of the Study
This study focuses on the interpersonal function that involves speech
function and moods. A clause considered as a unit of experience is constituted by
three elements namely process, participant, and circumstance. On that case this
study defines the analysis of interpersonal function by identifying the speech
function and moods in Mario Teguh’s statuses on Facebook on the typological
functions in Mario Teguh’s statuses on Facebook shared in January to April 2013
as the representatives.
E. Significances of the Study
This study is expected to be useful for:
1. people who would like to develop their ability in understanding the
interpersonal functions
2. for students, this research will give more information about the interpersonal
functions through literary works
3. for readers, this research will be useful to develop their understanding about
the interpersonal functions in Mario Teguh’s statuses on Facebook. The
readers will get the ideas of the metafunction in language namely ideational,
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After analyzing all the collected data, conclusions are drawn as
follows: both all types of Speech Function and Moods were used in Mario
Teguh’s Facebook status. They are Statement, Question, Command, and Offer
for the Speech Function, and Declarative, Interrogative, and Imperative for the
Moods. Total number of Speech Function was 200, consisted of 139
Statement, 15 Question, 42 Command, and 4 Offer. Total number of Moods
was 196, consisted of 139 Declarative, 15 Interrogative, and 42 Imperative.
The percentage of each types of Speech Function found in Mario Teguh’s
Facebook status are 69.5% Statement, 7.5% Question, 21% Command, and
2% Offer. The percentage of each types of Moods found in Mario Teguh’s
Facebook status are 71% Declarative, 7.7% Interrogative, and 21.4%
Imperative.
The most dominant type of Speech Function found in Mario Teguh’s
Facebook status was Statement with the percentage of 69.5%, and the most
dominant type of Moods found in Mario Teguh’s Facebook status was
B. Suggestions
In relation to conclusions above, some suggestions are staged as follows:
1. It is important to the students of English literature to understand the
interpersonal functions in every medium of study, such as oral
conversations and written text in order to get the meaning of the context.
2. Mario Teguh is a very good and fun motivator with a broad and vast mind.
It is recommended to hear and apply his motivational speaking in order to
dealt with problems in life.
3. For other researchers who want to make further research about the use of
interpersonal function in spoken or written text, this research can be used
as reference, but try to use other media for the research besides those
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