Ideational Meaning Analysis On Political Ofanalysts’debates

Abstract

Ideational meaning is one of three functions of language. Ideational meaning is meaning about phenomena, about things (living and non living, abstract and concrete), about goings on (what the things are or do) and the circumstances surrounding these happenings and doings. The aims of this research are to identify the ideational meaning realized in political debates script and to find out the most dominant process type found in political debates. Descriptive qualitave method was applied. The data were collected from the debates Rocky Gerung and Boni Hargens script as the object of research. Data collection methods were used watching in youtube based on real situation. The activities in the data analysis was included data reduction, data display and data veritification. From 332 clauses which have been analyzed, researcher find out five sequences of process. They are material process 70 which presents the process of doing, mental process 88 which reflects the process of thinking, feeling and perception, verbal process 103 which involves the process of saying or giving message trough language, relational process 31 process which shows the process of being and having, and existential process 40 which presents the process of existence. The most dominant process here is verbal process