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Essay On Functional Language

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Language is an important way for human to communicate each other. It is because language can express our thoughts and feelings to the person who are talking to us. Due to that statement, we need to learn more than one language to talk with foreigners and to understand what they are talking about. Sometimes to understand the meaning of every language or sentence is hard for several people because every language has their own structure which can describe the rule and the meaning. To understand the meaning of the language we need to know about the function of the language itself. System functional grammar here is needed to describe the function of the language and it is also helping us to improve our skill in mastering of the language.
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It is also because when people communicate, they deliver more than just content or information, they also communicate their role face to face their partners in the talk exchange. As Gerot and Wignell (1994:13) state that interpersonal meaning are described as meaning which express a speaker’s attitude and judgment. It means through Interpersonal meaning, it may lead us to uncover how attitudes and judgments of speakers especially public figure or president as representative of the …show more content…

Through the mood structure and modality as parts of interpersonal meaning, it can be easier to analysis the meaning of the clause based on systemic functional grammar approach. It will be easier to identify the function of the speech uses structure and also interpret how the speaker shows his thoughts through this speech to the audiences.
The researcher tries to do research about the interpersonal meaning based on systemic functional grammar approach uses Obama’s Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism as the object and the title of this research is Interpersonal Meaning in Obama’s Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism.
B. Research Problems
According to the background above, this research is aimed to answer the following questions:
1. How does Barack Obama represent his intended meaning through the use of interpersonal meaning?
2. How is Obama’s attitudes and judgments towards the world by his

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