| dc.description.abstract | Language is a useful means of peace and harmony. On August 28, 1963,
Martin Luther King, Jr. directed a peaceful march at Washington, D.C and delivered a
speech known as I Have a Dream. He used abundant repetitions of phrase and clause
in the speech. In fact, the speech was written with great care although it was delivered
orally. This thesis is intended to know how a language works in construing its
meaning in text. Systemic functional analysis is conducted in this study by applying
Systemic Functional Linguistics proposed by Halliday and Eggins.
Library research is employed in this study. The data used in this study are
qualitative data applying bibliographical technique as the data collection. The data are
five parallel structure of generic structure of the speech: Orientation, Complication,
Evaluation, Resolution, and Coda. The descriptive method is used to describe
lexicogrammatical patterns, semantic components, situational dimensions and context
of culture systematically. As a result, the analyses of the excerpts show that the five
selected excerpts share the same Tenor: the unequal (hierarchic) power of Martin
Luther King, Jr. to the civil rights supporters. Otherwise, each Field and Mode of the
texts is different. Then, context of culture is also reflected in the analyses. | en_US |
