Ranti Harvi Rahimi, 0203516041 (2019) THE APPLICATION OF APPRAISING SYSTEM IN DOYLE’S ENTITLED A STUDY IN SCARLET IN ELT. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Rahimi, Ranti Harvi. 2019. The Application of Appraising System found in Doyle’s Entitled A Study in Scarlet. Supervised by Dr. Djoko Sutopo, M.Si, and Sri Wuli Fitriati, S.Pd,. M.Pd,. Ph. D. Keywords: interpersonal meaning, appraising items, attitude, novel This research investigated the interpersonal meaning in a novel, how the appraising items are used by the main characters in the novel and also its pedagogical implication to English education. The objectives of this research were to explain the use of the appraising items used by the main characters which are consisting of affect, judgment, and appreciation and how it can affect the reader’s emotion and opinion. Using the framework of interpersonal meaning by Halliday (2004) and Kress van Leeuwen (2006), this research carried out a discourse analysis which belongs to qualitative research. The object was an English novel A Study in Scarlet written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The object of this research is divided into two chapters consisting of nine subchapters. The researcher took the main characters from the novel, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson utterances and monologues. The units were clauses in the chapters and they are analyzed into several stages. There are classifying the texts, classifying the data into observation sheets which consisting of the clauses, the attitude types, the appraiser as the one who performs the appraisal and the appraisee as the one who is appraised. After the data is gained, the researcher interpreted the finding. The findings showed that the use of the attitude from affect, judgment and appreciation was dominated by Dr. Watson as the main character and also the narrator. In affect domain, he used mostly happiness, negative capacity, and normality in judgment and positive reaction in appreciation. It can be concluded that, the writer portrayed Sherlock Holmes through Dr. Watson’s utterances and monologues in order to show Holmes’ characters, how he reacted to series of events in the novel by using certain appraising items. Regarding English education, by applying appraising items in teaching-learning, the teacher could help the students to enhance their communication skill whether it is inside or outside the classroom. The appraising system in the end hopefully can make them reach the purpose of having varied and natural conversation and mutual understanding.

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