APPRAISAL SYSTEM IN SYLLABUS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL DOCUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS APPROACH
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2020-09-11
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After being recognized as a legitimate form of marriage in various countries, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the United States Constitution guarantee the same-sex marriage in 2015. It is the syllabus of same-sex marriage legal document in the United States that become the object of the research. This research aims to identify the appraisal types and its clause constituents in the syllabus and examines how appraisal system indicates the interpersonal meaning relation with the readers in the syllabus of same-sex marriage legal document in the United States. The theory proposed by Martin and White of appraisal system (2005) based on attitude, engagement, and graduation system are used to support the analysis. From the analysis, the researcher found that the petitioners indicate their interpersonal meaning in showing the fact that they are the victims of discrimination from state regulations. It can be seen from the word choice in attitude types, there are ‘harm’, and ‘criminal’ that most often in insecurity constituent. Besides, they need in protecting the same-sex marriage right. Recognition the right of same-sex marriage, will give them a guarantee to live safely. This needs can be seen from the word choice in attitude types, there are ‘protected’ in security constituent and ‘recognize’ in capacity constituent. Moreover, the petitioners indicate the fighting for equality by mentioning that marriage is a fundamental right of all humans that must be obtained. It can be seen from the word choice in attitude types, there are ‘fundamental’ in valuation constituent and ‘intimate’ in normality constituent. The petitioners also show that they are still be cooperative and objective by tried to add many references and statements from experts as data and facts that confirmed their petition. Furthermore, the petitioners resuscitate all parties that same-sex marriage is very important and must be a concentration of parties who can help validation same-sex marriage. Over all, the petitioners often involve human rights, cultural and social factors in proposing legalization of same-sex marriage. But the petitioners did not involve religion and the health effects in the syllabus of same-sex marriage.
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appraisal system, interpersonal meaning, legal document