Abstract
Language cannot be separated from the social context and culture. In everyday communication, people act and react differently depending on interactants, topics involved, and means of communication. This study, therefore, analyses two Talk Shows with guests of different power status- Ellen with Vice President Joe Biden and Ellen with Special Education teacher Jenna Albi. The analysis is carried out using Halliday’s Mood analysis framework, as revised by Matthiessen (2014) and Eggin (2004). The present study compares Ellen’s use of Mood structures and their functions in the interaction with different social beings. It reveals that in the talk with the Vice President, Ellen uses questions most (28.37%), followed by statements (20%) while in the talk with the Special Education teacher, Ellen prioritizes statements (43%) over questions (14%). On the other hand, she does not enjoy any Commands (0%) in the talk with the Vice President but does so with the teacher (18%). It turns out that, unlike in Fairclough’s (2001) finding, participants with high power status tend to answer questions rather than asking questions.
Highlights
IntroductionHalliday (1985) encapsulated meaning in his three metafunctions of language, namely, the experiential meaning, the interpersonal meaning, and the textual meaning
What is the function of meaning in our everyday life? Halliday (1985) encapsulated meaning in his three metafunctions of language, namely, the experiential meaning, the interpersonal meaning, and the textual meaning
Experiential meaning is interpreting language as an experience, interpersonal meaning refers to language as an exchange and textual meaning refers to language as a message
Summary
Halliday (1985) encapsulated meaning in his three metafunctions of language, namely, the experiential meaning, the interpersonal meaning, and the textual meaning. Experiential meaning is interpreting language as an experience, interpersonal meaning refers to language as an exchange and textual meaning refers to language as a message. Talking about the context of situation, Halliday (1985) introduced three conceptual terms “Field, Tenor, and Mode”. Ellen DeGeneres is a celebrity in the United States who has interviewed several people with different social statuses, including former Presidents George Bush, Barack Obama, and movie star Jackie Chan. With the aim to analyze the semantics and lexico-grammatical structures of the exchanges between different social beings, the present study choose to examine two Talk Shows- the interaction between Ellen and Vice President, Joe Biden and the one between Ellen and Special Education teacher https://jurnal.uisu.ac.id/index.php/languageliteracy
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