Abstract
This study entitled The English Nominal Group Structure with Special Reference to John Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon’s Speech is aimed to analyze the experiential structures and logical structure elements of nominal group used by John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon in their speech. The data were taken from the transcript of John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon’s speech at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. on February 14, 2013. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyze the experiential and logical structures of nominal group. The theory used to analyze it is the theory of Nominal Group proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen in the book entitled Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar the fourth edition. The result of analysis shows that in the experiential structure, T structure becomes the most frequent structure that occurs followed by D+T and D+T+Q structure. Meanwhile, in the logical structure, H and M are the logical structure elements found. Therefore, from the structures found, John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon’s nominal group structures have a simple construction and it emphasizes Thing without adding any information.
Highlights
Background of the StudyLanguage as a means of communication has an important role in the interaction among the people (Lintang, 2013)
John Kerry is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from February 1st, 2013 – January 20th, 2017 and Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1st, 2007 to December 31st, 2016
The speech is about John Kerry and Ban Kimoon‟s speech during the United Nations general meeting at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. on February 14th, 2013. the source is exquisitely special because this is the first time UN has spoken during the humanitarian issues especially refugees from regime‟s countries
Summary
Background of the StudyLanguage as a means of communication has an important role in the interaction among the people (Lintang, 2013). There are several kinds of language which are used to communicate by the people are body language, written language, and spoken language. Those kinds of language are usually used by the people to deliver the message from the speaker to the hearer. The spoken language or in this case, the speech of John Kerry and Ban Kimoon was related to this study, the structure of their group of words especially Nominal Group in the speech would be analyzed. John Kerry is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from February 1st, 2013 – January 20th, 2017 and Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1st, 2007 to December 31st, 2016
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