AN INTERPERSONAL METAFUNCTION ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE SPEECHES PRODUCED BY SPEAKING 4 CLASS STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

The objective of this study is to describe the interpersonal metafunction characteristics of speeches produced by Speaking 4 class students of English Education Department of Yogyakarta State University in the academic year of 2012/2013 in a topic of electoral campaign. The concerns of this study are related to the students’ ability in positioning themselves and in emphasizing their propositions and proposals. In relation to those issues, this study investigates the mood types, the person systems, and the modal commitments realized in their speeches. This study employs a qualitative technique. There are 264 data which are investigated in this study from nine randomly-selected persuasive speeches produced by Speaking 4 class students from three different classes. The data collection technique used in this study is unobtrusive measures in which the researcher gathers the data from the videos of the students’ speech performances. Those data are then analyzed using a data analysis sheet consisting of the categorizations of the data based on the mood types, the person systems, and the modal commitments. Based on the investigation of the students’ speeches, this study finds that the dominant mood type of the students’ speeches is the declarative one with 249 occurrences, or 94.32%. This study also discovers that most of the students employ the first person system with 219 occurrences, or 76.84%. The use of the median modal commitment also dominates the modal commitments realized in their speeches with 83 occurrences, or 69.17%. Based on the findings and based on the other studies on public speeches, this study concludes that generally the students’ speeches in terms of the interpersonal metafunction are appropriate