SPEECH FUNCTION OF ANIES BASWEDAN IN HIS GOVERNOR INAUGURAL CEREMONY

Language forms a dialogue that becomes a very important matter in communicating.
Dialogue is related with speech functions. Halliday (2014) suggest that dialogue is a process
of exchange involving two variables; those are: (1) a commodity to be exchanged; either
information or good and service and (2) roles associated with exchange relations; either
giving or demanding. Halliday (1994) states that there are four basic types of speech
functions; those are: offer, statement, command, and question. This study analyzes the speech
function of Anies Baswedan’s speech in inauguration ceremony as the governor of Jakarta in
the period of 2017-2022. Based on the data analysis, there were 82 independent clauses of
which speech functions were statement, there were 26 independent clauses of which speech
functions are command, and there was 1 independent clause of which speech function was
question. The speech functions of statement were in unmarked mood, the command ones
were in marked and unmarked mood, and the speech function of question was in unmarked
mood. The types of speech function found in the speech are correlated with the function and
the goal of the speech. There were four types of reasons in applying the speech function in
Anies Baswedan’s speech. The reasons were for informing, motivating, persuading, and
getting information