Abstract:
The research deals with speech function in the interview Sandiaga Uno. The data
were analyzed based on 4 kinds of speech function suggested by Halliday (2014).
The objectives of this study were to describe the kinds of speech function found,
to examine the realization speech function in mood, and to reason for the use of
speech function expressed in Sandiaga Uno‟s Interview Text. The limit of this
study was focused on the kinds of speech function identified in Sandiaga Uno‟s
Interview Text. Data were taken from Sandiaga Uno‟s interview that Claudius as
interviewer and Sandiaga Uno as interviewee on BeritaSatu ten minutes of the
interview. The study was conducted by using qualitative analysis. The findings
show that there are three kinds of speech function used by interviewer and
interviewee on Sandiaga Uno‟s interview. There are Statement, question and
command. The realization speech function in mood was classified in three basic
speech function are realized or expressed by declarative, interrogative and
imperative moods. The reason of speech function used in the text, there were
classified into four basic tenors of status, formality, affection and contact. Status
dominantly influenced speech function in this interview.
