A Study of Arguments in Senior High School Debate  

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Yuyun, Ignasia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional
Dalam koleksi: Jurnal Penelitian Lembaga Penelitian Universitas Sanata Dharma vol. 14 no. 01 (Nov. 2010), page 109-133.
Topik: Argument; debate; mood; modality; interpersonal; meaning; senior high school

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J89.2 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper attempts to identify the representation of arguments in a private senior high school debate's club in Bandung. This study used a case study method, particulary text analysis (Travers, 2001) and involved a debate activity of senior high school students that was purposively chosen. Halliday and Matthiessen' theory of mood and modality (2004) and Eggins and Slade' analytical strategies (1997) the paper will then delineate the results, showing that the arguments in the debate are represented through the extensive use of the declarative mood, median probability, extension conjunction, questions, and commands in declarative, explicitly subjective modality, and realization of metaphorical explicit subjective modality. Moreover, mood and modality analysis is helpful to understand the interpersonal meaning of the debate from a new perspective, which elaborates the subtleties of language use in this kind of genre and helps us have a better understanding of it. Therefore, such a study suggests that similar analysis could also benefit English learners in their improvement of English proficiency so that they can develop their communicative competence more effectively.

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