Mood and Modality in Soekarno’s 1955 Speech

Syamsidar, Syamsidar; Yatmikasari, Ika; Nurrachman, Dian

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“…Strong language skills are absolutely required to survive and succeed in today's business world. In general, the above finding is agreed by the study by the study of Syamsidar, Ika and Dian (2019) that the use of interpersonal meanings; Mood and Modality demonstrated ones language ability in any professional contentext as in job interviews.…”

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Interactions in Professional Discourses in Job Interviews: The Use of Interpersonal Meaning, Mood and Modality

Krishnan¹,

Sriniwass²

2022

IJARBSS

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This paper presents an aspect of the investigation into the interaction in professional discourse,that focuses on interpersonal meanings in a job interview. The theory of the interpersonal metafunction or the clause as exchange from systematic functional linguistics is used to analyse the interactions between interviewers and interviewees in job interviews. The study uses Mood and Modality to examine closely how interaction is carried out in the interviews. In an interview, the interviewer uses particular speech roles and the interviewee responds accordingly. However, the current study shows a variety of responses that do not always complement the interviewer's speech role. Data for the study were obtained from 10 interviews from one interview session for the post of customer services. A qualitative content analysis was carried out using Halliday's Systematic Functional Linguistic theory on the clause as exchange that was deemed suitable to bring out the various meanings in the interviews. A close examination of Mood and Modality was carried out on the recurrent themes in the interviews such as strengths and weaknesses, problem solving strategies and initiative and working experiences of the interviewees. The findings show that recent Malaysian graduates have used mostly "can"at 28 % and "will"at 35 % as Modality resources. A study on the grammatical realisation of interaction in interviews is necessary for recruitment companies, human resources personnel and interviewees themselves. The current study hopes to contribute towards an understanding of current market demands for hiring employees in terms of interviews.

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Section: Participants Metaphorical Realisationsupporting

confidence: 74%

Interactions in Professional Discourses in Job Interviews: The Use of Interpersonal Meaning, Mood and Modality

Krishnan¹,

Sriniwass²

2022

IJARBSS

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Tenor of Discourse and Modality Examination in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah

Yokossi

2021

Addaiyan J. Arts. Humanity. Soc. Sci.

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This study has examined the tenor of discourse and modality in two excerpts from Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah. The study aims at decoding the writer’s subtly encoded messages through both the interrelationships established among the participants of the selected excerpts and his use of modality. To attain such objectives, the investigation uses the descriptive quantitative and qualitative methodology. The research has arrived at valuable findings. Among several others presented in the subsection entitled interpretation of findings, the study has unveiled that power among the participants of the excerpts is unequal, contact infrequent, and affective involvement low. The tenor or social role relationship played by such participants as Major Sam, Chris Oriko, and Ikem Osodi is a formal one describing a formal situation. This implies that Achebe’s message in these excerpts is a serious one depictive of the real political unrest and the dominantly unmanageable discontent of Nigerians by the time he wrote these texts. The social role relationship carried out by the salespeople and their potential customers depict an informal tenor highlighting Achebe’s claim for a change in the Nigerians’ mind, and indirectly in the Africans’ ways of life. The overriding use of modalization over modulation in the analyzed excerpts highlights the way the writer creates a less authoritative, more suggestive tenor balancing, by this means, the power inequality inherent in the modulation.

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Mood and Modality in Soekarno’s 1955 Speech

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Interactions in Professional Discourses in Job Interviews: The Use of Interpersonal Meaning, Mood and Modality

Interactions in Professional Discourses in Job Interviews: The Use of Interpersonal Meaning, Mood and Modality

Tenor of Discourse and Modality Examination in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah

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