Sarah , 2201413061 (2017) INTERPERSONAL MEANINGS OF CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN’S SPEECH ON DONALD TRUMP IMPEACHMENT. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is based on a study which attempted to investigate how Congressman Al Green conveyed his intention through his speech by elaborating his language. The main purposes of the study were to find out the interpersonal meanings of Congressman Al Green’s speech on Donald Trump impeachment, the tenor underlying it and how he perceived the impeachment. By analyzing the interpersonal meaning, language users can express their opinion, influence one’s behavior, and maintain relationships with others. The object of the study is a speech on Donald Trump impeachment delivered by Congressman Al Green at House Floor, which then was transcribed into written. The data collected were analyzed based on discourse analysis from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics concerning two central units of analyses; Tenor Analysis and Lexicogrammar Analysis. Meanwhile, quantitative data are also used to enhance the analysis. The findings of the analysis showed that in terms of the Tenor, Congressman Al Green delivered a persuasive speech in front of the Speaker of the House, other Members of the House, and American people to make them believe in the issue. Therefore, Congressman Al Green had to make clear and provide some pieces of evidence to persuade the audience to vote for the impeachment. Meanwhile, the result of Lexicorammar Analysis showed that Al Green spoke in the name of himself personally as one of American people who believe in the great ideals that no one is above the law and as one of U.S. Representatives who has privilege of overseeing the implementation of the law. Therefore, Al Green urged that the President should be charged. Almost all of the speech clauses are declarative because Al Green did a monologue speech act to pass on information. It showed that Al Green was confident to give his audience information about the topic. Some uses of modality which show the speaker’s judgment, are also identified. Al Green used modalization to talk about the probability and the necessity of the impeachment. From the findings, it can be concluded that language users who want to communicate effectively have to understand interpersonal meaning to understand people's intention in conveying something. Hopefully, this study can be a model for EFL learners in order to be able to understand the meaning behind a text so that they can create a good text by elaborating various language resources.

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