CONFIGURATIONS OF TENOR USED IN SETYA NOVANTO’S UTTERANCES ON FREEPORT ISSUE

This study aims to find out the configurations of tenor used in Setya Novanto’s
uterances on Freeport Issue. It is conducted to figure out how is his involvement
in term of compromising the contract expansion of Freeport Company in
Indonesia. The data of this study was given data taken from internet. The source
of data was the transcript conversation among Setya Novanto, Maroef Sjamsudin,
and Muhammad Riza Chalid when they had meeting in SCBD Hotel, Jakarta on
June 8th 2015 and the data analyzed was ninety eight utterances of Setya Novanto
which were found in the conversation. Those utterances then analyzed by four
aspects of tenor namely status, formality, contact, and affective involvement.
After analyzing the data, it was found that from 16 Tenor configurations, Setya
Novanto’s utterances imply 8 of them. The most dominant configuration used by
him was [Informal,Equal,Frequent,(-)affective involvement] with 67 frequencies.
Those configurations imply language deviation toward Indonesia President by
uttering inappropriate personal pronoun and dubbing him an epithet. In term of
linguistic features, he used ellipsis, figurative meanings, and borrowing words in
this Freeport issue conversation because in fact, he had close relationship with his
interlocutors. In summary, this conversation mainly discussed about arranging the
plan to evoke Indonesia President, Joko Widodo to deal with the contract
expansion of Freeport Company in Indonesia.