A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING ON GARUDA INDONESIAS AND LION AIRS SAFETY DEMONSTRATION ANNOUNCEMENTS: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC APPROACH
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2018-08-20
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This study is conducted to compare the interpersonal meaning of Garuda Indonesia’s and Lion Air’s safety demonstration announcements, through the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach. The interpersonal meaning is found through a set of analyses on the mood system and the modality of the two airlines’ safety demonstration announcements. Using comparative analysis method, this study aims to identify and compare the mood types and the modality types and values of 32 and 41 clauses in, respectively, Garuda Indonesia’s and Lion Air’s safety demonstration announcement texts. The comparison is in the terms of the frequencies of the mood and modality types and values which appear in both texts. The data are collected from the latest version of Garuda Indonesia Flight Attendant Announcement Book 7th edition issued on February 24th 2017, and Lion Air Flight Attendant Manual Announcement Book issued on August 2nd 2016. The data is limited to the safety demonstration announcement for Boeing 737-800, considering it is the aircraft type which both of the airlines currently has in common. The results of the study show that, first, declarative type of mood is predominant in both airlines’ safety demonstration announcement which indicates the tendency of the airlines to provide more information to the passengers, rather than instruction or question. Secondly, the predominance of modulation type of modality in Garuda Indonesia’s safety demonstration announcement, and modalization in Lion Air’s, indicates that Garuda Indonesia tends to focus on clear instructions given to the passengers, rather than the clarity of its information as in Lion Air’s. Thirdly, the median degree of modality values is predominant in both airlines’ safety demonstration announcements, which indicates fair level of certainty in propositions and of pressure in proposals.
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Systemic Functional Linguistics, interpersonal meaning, mood