Interpersonal Metafunction In Speech Analysis

In brief, Ye (2010) writes that the notion of Interpersonal Metafunction in speech represents the following points:(1) the way through which the addresser and the audience interact,(2) the use of language to create and maintain relations with them, (3) to influence behavior of the addresser and the audience, (4) to express our own view point on things in the world, and (5) to show or change the audience’s attitudes (Halliday, 1970). This function mainly focuses on the Roles of Addressers and Audience, Mood and Modality.

In order to help the readers to understand Donald Trump 's Victory Speech and make comments on his speech about whether it is an effective discourse for its own purpose. And from the perspective of the Interpersonal Metafunction

4.1 The implication of Mood

To Gerot and Wignell (1994: 161) spoken and written languages are both complex but in different ways. To them spoken language seems to be complex grammatically while written language seems to be complex lexically. Spoken language tends to be grammatically intricate whereas written language tends to be lexically dense.

In order to keep speech going on, there is a component that is necessary for making the Interpersonal Metafunction of the clause as exchange in English speech ( Ye, 2010). This component is named Mood and is consisted of Subject and Finite (Thompson 2000:41). To Eggins (1994: 152) the mood structure of the clause refers to "the organization of the set of functional constituent, including constituent subject”. Whereas Halliday (1994:76) states that “the Subject supplies the rest of what it takes to form a proposition, namely, something by reference to which the proposition can be affirmed or denied”. The Finite refers to the first functional element of the verbal group. In short, the component mood consists of two elements: (1) the Subject, which

Beside, Imperative clause also shows a fundamental role in a speech in which it can appeal the audience to keep on following the addresser’s direction, and it can also assist to reinforce the authority of the addresser. Thus, in any speech it is very necessary for the addresser to keep building an equal and mutual relationship with his audience. As stated earlier that the function of command is closely associated with imperative clauses. Halliday (1970) argues that the kinds of messages conveyed by imperative clauses can be as follows : (1) to command others to do something; (2) to motivate the audience to do something together; (3) to make the audience sharing the addresser 's attitude. The latter is always done by the structure of “Let me”. With references to 3 imperative clauses in the data, Donald Trump chose “let me” imperative clauses, which indicate that he is very confident about himself. With the applications of three “let me” imperative clauses, Trump successfully shows his authority. In this respect