Attitude of Examiners in Thesis Convocation

The attitude in thesis convocation becomes the most crucial thing in comprehending and perceiving the meaning from the examiners to the examinees. This research attempts to investigate how the attitudes are realized by the
examiners in thesis convocation. This research is conducted in
qualitative approach by using discourse analysis method and
takes place in English Applied Linguistics (EAL) Study Program
of Postgraduate School of Universitas Negeri Medan on March,
16th 2017. The data of this research are the utterances of the
examiners which consist of attitude expression. The data sources of this research are the utterances of five examiners in thesis convocation. The technique of collecting data is done by recording, and transcribing. The data is analyzed by discourse analysis technique. The result shows that the way of attitudes expressed are in various ways namely direct and indirect or positive and negative which is dominated judgment in criticize. It means that the attitudes of the examiners in thesis convocation are various which dominated by judgment in criticize. It is suggested to find more about the appraisal theory in other kinds of interpersonal relations to develop and find the differences findings of this study.