Abstract
This study investigates the mood choice used by Indonesian English foreign language learners. The data were the spoken utterances of simulated conversation by four graduate students of English Education Department. The data were transcribed, encoded, analyzed, and interpreted based on the taxonomy of mood system, within the framework of Hallidays systemic functional linguistics, as proposed mainly by Eggins and Slade (1997) and Eggins (2004). Findings revealed that there are six types of moods, namely declarative, tagged declarative, polar interrogative, wh-interrogative, imperative, and exclamative. In addition, there are non-mood clause, namely minor clause, nonfinite clause, and incomplete clause. The dominant findings of numbers of declarative moods suggested that the exchanges of information dominate the conversation. Also, this may indicates the levels of participants competence in using casual English in foreign language context.
Highlights
Eggins and Slade (1997, p. 8) state “casual conversation is the kind of talk we engage in when we are talking just for the sake of talking.”
The most suitable linguistic theory to cope with this problem is Systemic Functional Linguistics ( SFL)
SFL is known as Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), is a school of linguistics advocated by M
Summary
Making Sense of Functional Grammar: An. Introductory Workbook. Eggins (2004, p.1) illustrates that in the ordinary life of human beings, they constantly use language. They chat to family members, organize children for school, read paper, speak at meeting, serve customers, follow instructions in a booklet, etc. SFL is known as Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), is a school of linguistics advocated by M. Halliday, based on Firthian Linguistics (Matthiesen, Teruya, K, & Lam, 2010, p.1). The most prominent difference between those two types of grammars is that primarily in SFL language is viewed as a resource for making meaning (Fontaine, 2013). Without ignoring the structures itself, the SFL deals with how the structure construct meaning
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