Attitudinal Appraisal in Ahok’s Speech

This research was carried out to investigate the
attitudinal appraisal in Ahok’s speech. The objective of the
research is to find out the type of attitudinal appraisal that used
Ahok in his speech. The subject of this research is Ahok who gave
speech at Kepulaun Seribu in 2016. The utterences of Ahok’s
speech in word or phrase were the data of this research. This
research used descriptive qualitative method and the instrument
of this research was observation. The types of attitudinal
appraisal were analyzed by using theory of Martin (2003). In this
research found 3 types of attitudes appraisal are applied in
Ahok’s speech , the types were affect, judgment and appreciation
where every types of attitudinal appraisal applied in positive and
negative.