The Interpersonal Meaning Of Tim Mc Grawn’s Song Lyric “Live Like You Were Dying."

Abstract

Raida, Silaban Kristina Jelfa. 2013. The Interpersonal Meaning of Tim McGraw’s Song Lyric “Live Like YouWere Dying”, Faculty of Language and Cultural Studies, UndergraduateProgram of the University of Stikubank Semarang. Supervisor: AgnesWidyaningrum, SE, S.Pd, M.Pd. This study examines TheInterpersonal Meaning of Tim McGraw’s Song Lyric “Live Like You Were Dying” hasthree research questions, i.e. (1) How is tenor realized in the song? (2) How is mood realized in thesong? (3) How is pronounsystem realized in the song? The writer has an interest to use thesong lyric of Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” because there are so many clauses written indifferent sentence types and they may give a lot of knowledge related toconsiderable study. Thewriter tries to explore how interpersonal meaning is achieved from theperspective of Functional Grammar and with the focus on mood, modal auxiliary,and personal pronouns in pronoun system. The theory proposed by Halliday (2009) was used as theframework to analyze interpersonal meaning built in Tim McGraw’s song lyric “Live Like You Were Dying”. The object of the study was analyzedusing descriptive qualitative research as a method of study. The result of the study shows that dominantclauses in Tim McGraw’s Song Lyric “Live LikeYou Were Dying” are majorclauses which have percentage 82 % and minor clause has percentage 18 %. The mood systems in the song lyricare declarative mood that consists of unmarked declarative clauses (80 %) asthe majority and interrogative (20). Polarity positive (98%) and polaritynegative (2%). Last, the pronoun systems used mostly are “I” (48 %) used 22times and “You” (17 %) adopted 8 times. Keyword:       systemic functional grammar,interpersonal meaning, mood system, polarity, pronoun system