Speech Function of Anies Baswedan in His Governor Inaugural Ceremony

Language forms a dialogue that becomes a very important matter in communicating. Dialogue is related with speech functions. Halliday (2014) suggest that dialogue is a process of exchange involving two variables; those are: (1) a commodity to be exchanged; either information or good and service and (2) roles associated with exchange relations; either giving or demanding. Halliday (1994) states that there are four basic types of speech functions; those are: offer, statement, command, and question. This study analyzes the speech function of Anies Baswedan’s speech in inauguration ceremony as the governor of Jakarta in the period of 2017-2022. Based on the data analysis, there were 82 independent clauses of which speech functions were statement, there were 26 independent clauses of which speech functions are command, and there was 1 independent clause of which speech function was question. The speech functions of statement were in unmarked mood, the command ones were in marked and unmarked mood, and the speech function of question was in unmarked mood. The types of speech function found in the speech are correlated with the function and the goal of the speech. There were four types of reasons in applying the speech function in Anies Baswedan’s speech. The reasons were for informing, motivating, persuading, and getting information