DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENTIAL FUNCTION IN THE MISS UNIVERSE’S SPEECHES 2019

Abstract

The aim of study is to investigate the kinds of process of experiential function are used in the Miss Universe’s Speeches 2019, to elaborate the realization of the process of experiential function, and to reason for the used of process of experiential function in the Miss Universe’s Speeches 2019. This study used descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The data was taken from Miss Universe’s Speeches 2019 script. The script consisted of 8 pages were taken as the data. The data were 21 utterances which consist of 20 contestants of Miss Universe 2019 utterances and one of host utterance that consist of 175 clauses. From the data obtained, it was found that Material process, 66 times (37.71%), Relational process 62 times (36.57%), Mental process 36 times (20.57%), Verbal process 5 times (2.86%), Existential process 3 times (1.71%), and Behavioural process only one time (0.57%). In this research, material process is the most dominantly kinds process of experiential function used by utterances in the Miss Universe’s Speeches 2019. The realization kinds process of experiential function occured because the speech have grammatical and systematical reason. Each contestants of Miss Universe used the kinds process of experiential function for indicating something which depends on the speaker’s means. The kinds process of experiential function because it’s used for talking about their experiences, the policy in the future. The dominant kinds process of experiential function was material process as the way to persuade, to motivate and convey information or insight the audiences in the Miss Universe’s Speeches 2019.