Abstract :
The thesis entitled Mood Analysis of Barrack Obama Speech Script at
Istana Merdeka (Tuesday, 9 November 2010) has two objectives. First is to find
out the mood types of the clauses in speech script that is done by President
Barrack Obama. The second is to explain the contextual description of
interpersonal meaning of the speech.
Systemic functional grammar is used in this thesis to study about mood
which exists in the speech script, because systemic functional grammar describes
not only the form but also the functional term. Mood is a system through which
interpersonal meaning realized within the conversation. It consists of two parts;
the Subject that is a nominal group, and the Finite operator that is part of verbal
group, and the rest of those parts are called Residue. In this research, the data used
are in the form of spoken text which is realized in written text.
The research uses qualitative method, in which the data are taken from all
clauses of utterances in the speech script. The data and theories of this research
are taken from internet websites and library.
There are 70 clauses are found in the speech script, and all of those are
declarative mood. The agentive or societal roles are the speech of President
Barrack Obama in front of President Susilo Bambang Yudhayana and the guests
at Istana Merdeka. The status is unequal. The relationship between them is close
so the social distance is minimal.