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This document summarizes a study examining 50 TED talks through move analysis to identify common structures. The study found:
1) TED talks contain 3 stages - an opening, body, and closing stage. The body stage contains 4 problem-solution moves: the problem move, response move, evaluation move, and situation move.
2) Certain moves, like the restated thesis, are used in both the body and closing stages.
3) The study aims to contribute to materials design and classroom practice for oral presentation skills by identifying common rhetorical structures in successful TED talks.
An Argument Analysis Contribution To Interpretive Public Policy AnalysisKate Campbell
This document discusses interpretive policy analysis and argument analysis as a methodology. It begins by outlining some challenges students face in applying interpretive perspectives, such as a lack of accessible integrated methodology.
It then summarizes approaches to interpretive policy analysis from Yanow and Hansen, focusing on identifying interpretive communities, meaning-laden artifacts, and systems of meanings. Argument analysis is presented as an approach that can help operationalize interpretive analysis while being accessible to students.
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This document summarizes a study that used debates to teach critical thinking skills to English language learners in Japan. It describes a systematic 6-stage process for preparing and conducting debates that aligned with a taxonomy of critical thinking skills. Students took courses that guided them through clarifying issues, gathering information, evaluating sources, analyzing evidence, explaining conclusions, and self-assessing performances in debates about topics like media violence and social issues in Japan. Student feedback indicated they found the debates interesting and at an appropriately challenging difficulty level. The debates effectively developed students' cognitive and presentation skills for critical analysis.
A Good Question Expressing Evaluation In Academic SpeechKristen Carter
This document provides background information on evaluating language in academic speech by analyzing a corpus of spoken academic language (MICASE). It makes the following key points:
1. Academic speech differs from academic writing in that it is less regulated and more learned through socialization and observation rather than explicit instruction.
2. Evaluation permeates academic discourse but is more elusive given the expectation of objectivity; this study focuses on inherently evaluative expressions that convey generic positive or negative evaluations.
3. A preliminary analysis of frequent items differentiating the MICASE corpus from a written corpus found more positively evaluative terms like "interesting" and "good" in speech and more negatively evaluative terms like "weak" and "difficult"
This chapter discusses inquiry-oriented discussions that use multiple texts. It begins with background on inquiry-oriented discussions, noting they are based on multiple texts, focus on connections across texts, extend over multiple sessions with written records, and are exploratory in nature. However, these types of discussions are not widespread. The chapter then discusses key elements for creating an environment where these discussions can occur, including selecting topics that are concept-driven, generative, complex, useful, and accessible. It also discusses selecting a broad range of text types, arranging texts, designing discussion activities, developing questions, managing texts and talk, documenting learning, and evaluating learning.
Teaching critical questions about argumentationthrough the r.docxssuserf9c51d
Teaching critical questions about argumentation
through the revising process: effects of strategy
instruction on college students’ argumentative essays
Yi Song • Ralph P. Ferretti
Published online: 24 May 2012
� Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Abstract The effects of self-regulated strategy development revising instruction
for college students that targeted the use of argumentation schemes and critical
questions were assessed in three conditions. In the first condition, students were
taught to revise their essays by asking and answering critical questions about the
argument from consequences and argument from example schemes while writing
about controversial topics. In the second condition, students were taught to revise
their essays by using argumentation schemes to justify their standpoint, but did not
learn the critical questions. In the third condition, students received no instruction
about either the argumentation schemes or the critical questions. Compared to
students in the contrasting conditions, those who were taught to ask and answer
critical questions wrote essays that were of higher quality, and included more
counterarguments, alternative standpoints, and rebuttals. These findings indicate
that strategy instruction that includes critical standards for argumentation increases
college students’ sensitivity to alternative perspectives.
Keywords Argumentation schemes � Critical questions � Strategy instruction �
Argumentative writing � Revision
Introduction
Communication about controversial issues presumes the capacity to consider
potentially relevant evidence, entertain alternative perspectives, and arrive at a
Y. Song (&)
School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
R. P. Ferretti
School of Education, University of Delaware, 015 C Willard Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
123
Read Writ (2013) 26:67–90
DOI 10.1007/s11145-012-9381-8
reasonable standpoint based on an evaluation of the justificatory strategies used to
accomplish their discursive purposes (van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 2004; van
Eemeren, Grootendorst, & Henkemans, 1996; Walton, Reed, & Macagno, 2008).
Unfortunately, the evidence shows that people often ignore relevant information
that is inconsistent with their perspective, i.e., my-side bias (Perkins, Farady, &
Bushey, 1991), do not consider potential counterarguments (Kuhn, 1991), lack
standards for evaluating argumentative strategies (Ferretti, Lewis, & Andrews-
Weckerly, 2009; Nussbaum & Edwards, 2011), and fail to adapt their strategies to
the communicative circumstances (Felton & Kuhn, 2001). As a result, people’s
argumentation is often poorly developed and insensitive to alternatives perspectives.
The aforementioned limitations in thinking are clearly evident in students’
argumentative essays, which are usually shorter and underdeveloped compared to
narrative and informative writing (Applebee, Lange ...
Analysing ESL Persuasive Essay Writing Using Toulmin S Model Of ArgumentJoe Osborn
This document analyzes the persuasive essay writing of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners using Toulmin's Model of Argument. Fifteen persuasive essays written by tertiary ESL learners in a Malaysian university were analyzed using Toulmin's Model, which identifies six elements of argument: claim, grounds, warrant, backing, qualifier, and rebuttal. The analysis found that the students' essays complied with the model except for the rebuttal element. The findings can help writing teachers focus on necessary elements to develop competent persuasive writers, and help textbook developers design materials based on this study.
A Clinica No Inicio Da Formacao A Experiencia De Uma Rede De Atendimento Psic...Erica Thompson
This document summarizes a study examining 50 TED talks through move analysis to identify common structures. The study found:
1) TED talks contain 3 stages - an opening, body, and closing stage. The body stage contains 4 problem-solution moves: the problem move, response move, evaluation move, and situation move.
2) Certain moves, like the restated thesis, are used in both the body and closing stages.
3) The study aims to contribute to materials design and classroom practice for oral presentation skills by identifying common rhetorical structures in successful TED talks.
An Argument Analysis Contribution To Interpretive Public Policy AnalysisKate Campbell
This document discusses interpretive policy analysis and argument analysis as a methodology. It begins by outlining some challenges students face in applying interpretive perspectives, such as a lack of accessible integrated methodology.
It then summarizes approaches to interpretive policy analysis from Yanow and Hansen, focusing on identifying interpretive communities, meaning-laden artifacts, and systems of meanings. Argument analysis is presented as an approach that can help operationalize interpretive analysis while being accessible to students.
The document outlines how argument analysis builds on the Scriven and Toulmin formats, modifying them into more user-friendly work formats. It argues this approach fulfills two functions - inculcating an investigative reading style and providing a framework
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This document summarizes a study that analyzed the cohesion of exposition texts written by 11th grade students in Indonesia. The study analyzed 6 student texts (2 low achievers, 2 mid achievers, 2 high achievers) based on their schematic structure and linguistic features like theme progression and cohesive devices. The results found that all students demonstrated an understanding of exposition structure but only high achievers used complex theme patterns. In terms of cohesive devices, all students used simple references, lexical cohesion, and conjunctions. However, the texts had grammatical errors and needed more elaboration, suggesting students need more guidance to write at a professional level. The study recommends further research on teaching writing using systemic functional linguistics
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This document summarizes a study that used debates to teach critical thinking skills to English language learners in Japan. It describes a systematic 6-stage process for preparing and conducting debates that aligned with a taxonomy of critical thinking skills. Students took courses that guided them through clarifying issues, gathering information, evaluating sources, analyzing evidence, explaining conclusions, and self-assessing performances in debates about topics like media violence and social issues in Japan. Student feedback indicated they found the debates interesting and at an appropriately challenging difficulty level. The debates effectively developed students' cognitive and presentation skills for critical analysis.
A Good Question Expressing Evaluation In Academic SpeechKristen Carter
This document provides background information on evaluating language in academic speech by analyzing a corpus of spoken academic language (MICASE). It makes the following key points:
1. Academic speech differs from academic writing in that it is less regulated and more learned through socialization and observation rather than explicit instruction.
2. Evaluation permeates academic discourse but is more elusive given the expectation of objectivity; this study focuses on inherently evaluative expressions that convey generic positive or negative evaluations.
3. A preliminary analysis of frequent items differentiating the MICASE corpus from a written corpus found more positively evaluative terms like "interesting" and "good" in speech and more negatively evaluative terms like "weak" and "difficult"
This chapter discusses inquiry-oriented discussions that use multiple texts. It begins with background on inquiry-oriented discussions, noting they are based on multiple texts, focus on connections across texts, extend over multiple sessions with written records, and are exploratory in nature. However, these types of discussions are not widespread. The chapter then discusses key elements for creating an environment where these discussions can occur, including selecting topics that are concept-driven, generative, complex, useful, and accessible. It also discusses selecting a broad range of text types, arranging texts, designing discussion activities, developing questions, managing texts and talk, documenting learning, and evaluating learning.
Teaching critical questions about argumentationthrough the r.docxssuserf9c51d
Teaching critical questions about argumentation
through the revising process: effects of strategy
instruction on college students’ argumentative essays
Yi Song • Ralph P. Ferretti
Published online: 24 May 2012
� Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Abstract The effects of self-regulated strategy development revising instruction
for college students that targeted the use of argumentation schemes and critical
questions were assessed in three conditions. In the first condition, students were
taught to revise their essays by asking and answering critical questions about the
argument from consequences and argument from example schemes while writing
about controversial topics. In the second condition, students were taught to revise
their essays by using argumentation schemes to justify their standpoint, but did not
learn the critical questions. In the third condition, students received no instruction
about either the argumentation schemes or the critical questions. Compared to
students in the contrasting conditions, those who were taught to ask and answer
critical questions wrote essays that were of higher quality, and included more
counterarguments, alternative standpoints, and rebuttals. These findings indicate
that strategy instruction that includes critical standards for argumentation increases
college students’ sensitivity to alternative perspectives.
Keywords Argumentation schemes � Critical questions � Strategy instruction �
Argumentative writing � Revision
Introduction
Communication about controversial issues presumes the capacity to consider
potentially relevant evidence, entertain alternative perspectives, and arrive at a
Y. Song (&)
School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
R. P. Ferretti
School of Education, University of Delaware, 015 C Willard Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
123
Read Writ (2013) 26:67–90
DOI 10.1007/s11145-012-9381-8
reasonable standpoint based on an evaluation of the justificatory strategies used to
accomplish their discursive purposes (van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 2004; van
Eemeren, Grootendorst, & Henkemans, 1996; Walton, Reed, & Macagno, 2008).
Unfortunately, the evidence shows that people often ignore relevant information
that is inconsistent with their perspective, i.e., my-side bias (Perkins, Farady, &
Bushey, 1991), do not consider potential counterarguments (Kuhn, 1991), lack
standards for evaluating argumentative strategies (Ferretti, Lewis, & Andrews-
Weckerly, 2009; Nussbaum & Edwards, 2011), and fail to adapt their strategies to
the communicative circumstances (Felton & Kuhn, 2001). As a result, people’s
argumentation is often poorly developed and insensitive to alternatives perspectives.
The aforementioned limitations in thinking are clearly evident in students’
argumentative essays, which are usually shorter and underdeveloped compared to
narrative and informative writing (Applebee, Lange ...
Assessment Of ELLs Critical Thinking Using The Holistic Critical Thinking Sc...Tracy Morgan
This document summarizes a study that assessed English language learners' critical thinking skills in Thailand. At the beginning and end of a 10-week English course, students participated in small group discussions that were scored using a critical thinking rubric. Between discussions, students received online instruction on critical thinking concepts. Most students showed improvement in their critical thinking skills based on higher scores on the post-test. The study provides preliminary evidence that explicitly teaching critical thinking can improve students' abilities and that the scoring rubric is an effective assessment tool in this context.
The study investigated collaborative writing in an ESL classroom. Students were given a choice to write individually or in pairs on a short writing task. Pairs produced shorter but better quality texts than individuals in terms of task fulfillment, accuracy, and complexity. Collaboration allowed students to share ideas and provide feedback to each other. Most students viewed the collaborative experience positively, though some had reservations.
A Pragma-Dialectical Approach To Argumentative DiscourseJames Heller
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1) Externalization - It examines actual utterances rather than internal reasoning or intentions.
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3) Socialization - It analyzes arguments as part of a dialogue between a protagonist and antagonist rather than a monologue.
4) Dialectification - It evaluates arguments according to norms of a critical discussion aimed at resolving differences of opinion.
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This document summarizes previous research on analyzing the generic structure and moves within discussion sections of academic theses and research articles. It discusses studies that have identified common moves within discussion sections in various disciplines like applied linguistics, sociology, business administration, and medicine. The document then describes a study that analyzed 60 discussion sections from TEFL and chemistry theses written by Iranian MA students to identify similarities and differences in move types and frequencies between the two fields, and to determine if they followed established models of discussion section structure. The results showed some differences between the fields but overall adherence to existing models, suggesting students orient themselves to generic structures when writing.
A Review On Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Literary TextsPedro Craggett
This document summarizes research on developing critical thinking skills through literary texts in English language classrooms. It defines critical thinking and outlines several models for teaching it, including using literature. The key points are:
1) Critical thinking involves purposeful, self-regulated judgment and evaluation of arguments and information. Several definitions are provided.
2) Teaching critical thinking requires modifying instruction and assessments to promote reflection. Literary texts can foster skills like analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.
3) Studies found literary texts improve vocabulary, grammar, cultural knowledge, and motivate critical thinking when students consider different perspectives and apply lessons. Instructors must facilitate engaged discussion to fully develop these skills.
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This document provides an overview of rhetorical questions and their analysis using speech act theory. It discusses rhetorical questions, defining them and outlining their forms and functions. Key points include that rhetorical questions are questions that do not seek information or an answer, but rather make a statement. The document also outlines a model for analyzing rhetorical questions found in American political speeches using speech act theory. It presents a literature review on rhetorical questions and political language to provide the theoretical framework for the analysis.
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This document discusses argumentation in students' academic writing. It summarizes that previous models of argument analysis focused on persuasion, but academic arguments can serve multiple purposes including justification and inquiry. The author proposes an alternative framework to analyze student writing that accounts for rational, rhetorical and dialectical aspects of arguments and the diversity of practices across cultures. The framework identifies three potential functions of academic arguments: persuasion, justification of claims, and inquiry to evaluate positions without commitment. This recognizes that academic arguments are not solely aimed at persuasion.
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This paper is a critical study in Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm of a Textbook prescribed for intermediate students (Second Language Learners) in Government Colleges affiliated to the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. The textbook contains selected texts to improve students reading skills integrated with writing activities. Each of the texts contains questions at the end to be answered. It is observed that the reading tasks are badly designed and there is no mental activity to involve students in the text discourse. The study focuses on critical discourse of the underlying text to inspect whether the text reading involves students in the critical discourse or not; it also attempts to analyze the Reading Text ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ to identify problems showing the gap and unawareness on the part of teachers and students regarding the critical discourse of the text in classroom reading context. It is also suggested that teachers need to bring about a change in their traditional teaching methods in order to tackle the issue. The awareness of critical discourse analysis is recommended on the part of the teachers in order to analyze and understand the real meaning of the text. In result, it may develop the critical approach which is very essential for a reader.
The relationship between iranian efl high school students’ multiple intellige...James Cook University
Hajhashemi, K., Yazdi Amirkhiz, S. Y., & Parasteh Ghombavani, F. (2011). The Relationship between Iranian EFL High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores and Their Use of Learning Strategies. English Language Teaching, 4(3), 214-222.
Content:
Introduction and Status quo . 2
Ontology .
Epistemology .
Me hodolog . . .3
Research De ign . . 4
The introduction of Background Theory . 4
Background Theorie .
Reference . . . .. . 6
Introduction and status quo
The family business is the prevalent organizational form of business globally (Daily and Dollinger,
1993). One of the distinguishing features of family firms (FFs) is that they are built upon close
relationships among family members (Cruz et al., 2010), which can serve as a valuable resource
for serious tensions (Herrero, 2018). Some scholars see conflict as the source of all evil (Jayantilal
et al., 2016) that can create anxiety, especially among spouses. The tensions may be transferred to
other family members, notably the children, which may cause severe dysfunctional problems in
the family. These problems may put the whole family business in danger. These assumptions are
too simplistic and misleading and are one of the main reasons why the literature on this topic
remains largely undertheorized and fragmented, resulting in theoretical limitations and empirical
indeterminacy (Pai and Bendersky, 2020). we (Paola Rovelli,2021) advice for further research
that looks more closely at the family system, considering for instance aspects such as conflicts to
increase their attention towards the consequences of such inconsistencies. The psychology
literature suggests that moderate levels of conflict may enhance group performance through
improved decision-making processes, fostered innovation, and enhanced creativity Likewise,
conflict is not always negative (cognitive conflict), as it may lead to constructive challenges and
improvements (e.g., Ensley & Pearson, 2005. The purpose of this research is that it will give
insights to understand why in some contexts conflict leads to negative performance and why in
others to a positive outcome.
Ontology
An area of philosoph , that deals with the nature of being, or what exists; the area of philosophy
that asks what is and what the fundamental categories of reality are (Neuman, 2014, p. 94). social
reality is created by subjects through their interactions and interpretations, actors influence
structures and regularities, knowledge about social reality is always dependent on subjects and
social relations. In the concept of ontology, this research will put in the concept of nominalism
(as opposed to realism). Nominalists believe in multiple versions of reality, which is derived from
the researcher s interpretations of truth, and depending on the researcher s experience, it can only
be transferred to similar contexts. conflicts, as phenomena of social reality (Kellermanns and
Eddleston, 2004) focuses on communications, relationships and sees communicative acts as the
elements rather than persons. To understand it, the researcher should penetrate the depth of the
matter. Conflicts as a complex web of ...
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This document provides an introduction to the study of multimodal argumentation and rhetoric. It discusses how communication increasingly involves multiple modes beyond just language, such as images, sounds, and gestures. While disciplines traditionally focused on individual modes, the field of multimodal argumentation analyzes how modes work together to convey arguments. The introduction outlines different perspectives in the study of argumentation, such as logical, dialectical, and rhetorical, and how a multimodal approach draws from each. It also discusses terminology around visual, multimodal, argumentation, and rhetoric, proposing that "multimodal argumentation" best captures the combination of modes studied in the volume's contributions.
A Research On The Improvement Of Persuasive Writing Skill Of Sixth Grade Stud...Sean Flores
This document discusses research on improving the persuasive writing skills of 6th grade students in Turkey. It notes that while persuasive writing is taught in elementary school in Turkey, it is not systematically taught in secondary school, unlike in many other countries. The study developed a 15-week persuasive writing program based on a process-based writing model to teach persuasive writing skills to 18 6th grade students. Data was collected from student work and evaluations to analyze the impact of the program and relationships between analyzing persuasive texts and creating them. The findings showed that the students' abilities to analyze and create persuasive texts improved during the program, though they struggled with some elements like counterarguments and using sources. Students provided positive feedback about the program.
The document provides an overview of discourse analysis as a tool for social research. It defines discourse and discusses different approaches to discourse analysis such as frame analysis and critical discourse analysis. It also outlines some aims of discourse analysis, tools that can be used like corpus linguistics, and examples of analyzing text and framing. Key questions discussed include how analyzing discourse can reveal agendas and assumptions and how the structure of discourse can influence actions.
This document summarizes the creation of a new 18-item scale called the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Inventory (FLCAI) to measure foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA). The researchers began with an extended item pool generated through qualitative methods. They then used Rasch and semantic analyses to refine the items and develop the final 18-item scale. They found the FLCAI demonstrated better psychometric properties than the existing 33-item Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), including stronger evidence of measuring a single construct and better functioning of the 5-point response scale. The shorter FLCAI also covers a wider range of the FLCA construct while maintaining reliability, improving validity compared to the FLCAS.
This document summarizes a study that investigated English language anxiety and motivation to learn English among 177 Form 4 students in Malaysia. The study found that 17.5% of students experienced low language anxiety, 68.4% experienced moderate anxiety, and 14.1% experienced high anxiety. Girls reported higher anxiety than boys in some areas. Students with high anxiety reported less effort to improve their English skills than those with low anxiety. The study aimed to provide insights into how students' anxiety and motivation are related to their experiences learning English in the classroom.
A Model Of The Strength And Appropriateness Of Argumentation In Organizationa...Cynthia King
This document presents a model for analyzing the strength and appropriateness of arguments in organizational contexts. The model includes eight elements: the arguer, setting, audience, topic, content, form, integration, and strength. The context, comprised of the arguer, setting, audience and topic, affects an argument's strength through its content. Certain content dimensions like relevance and evidence are more appropriate and strengthen arguments depending on the contextual elements. The characteristics of the arguer, organizational setting, and relationship between power and argumentative position also influence the appropriateness and strength of arguments in different contexts.
Discourse analysis and pragmatics are interrelated fields that both study language in use and context. Discourse analysis examines language beyond the sentence level and how linguistic units are connected into coherent wholes. It considers local speech acts and their connections as well as global structures. Pragmatics analyzes speaker meaning and how context helps interpret utterances. Both fields consider context, text, and function. While pragmatics focuses more on speaker intention, discourse analysis examines how stretches of language are structured together. Discourse pragmatics bridges the two fields by studying speech acts in texts and series.
This document provides instructions for requesting assignment writing help from the website HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete an order form with instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and choose one. 4) Receive the paper and authorize payment if satisfied. 5) Request revisions until fully satisfied, with the option of a full refund for plagiarized work. The purpose is to outline the process for students to get help writing assignments through the website.
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Introduction and Status quo . 2
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Introduction and status quo
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1. A STUDY OF ARGUMENTS
IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE
I gnasia Yuyun
ABSTRACT
This paper attempts to identify the representation of arguments
in a private senior high school debate’s club in Bandung. This
study used a case study method, particularly text analysis (Travers,
2001) and involved a debate activity of senior high school students
that was purposively chosen. Halliday and Matthiessen’ theory of
mood and modality (2004) and Eggins and Slade’ analytical
strategies (1997) the paper will then delineate the results, showing
that the arguments in the debate are represented through the
extensive use of the declarative mood, median probability,
extension conjunction, questions, and commands in declarative,
explicitly subjective modality, and realization of metaphorical
explicit subjective modality. Moreover, mood and modality analysis
is helpful to understand the interpersonal meaning of the debate
from a new perspective, which elaborates the subtleties of language
use in this kind of genre and helps us have a better understanding
of it. Therefore, such a study suggests that similar analysis could
also benefit English learners in their improvement of English
proficiency so that they can develop their communicative
competence more effectively.
Keywords : argument, debate, mood, modality, interpersonal
meaning, senior high school
1. INTRODUCTION
Critical thinking has turned to become more important in
contemporary teaching and educational circles. For many reasons,
educators have become very interested in teaching ‘thinking skills’
of various kinds in contrast with teaching information and content
Ignasia Yuyun adalah Dosen di Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana Jakarta. Alamat
Korespondensi: Ukrida Language Training Center (ULTC) Jl. Tanjung Duren
Raya No.4, Jakarta Barat 11470. Email: ignasia_y@ukrida.ac.id
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(Fisher, 2001). Many educators have long advocated the teaching
of critical thinking skills such as reasoning (argumentation) and
problem solving. Skills in argumentation, spoken and written, has
been considered as one of critical thinking dispositions (Ennis, 1987,
cited in Emilia, 2009) has thus been considered to be critical to
challenge students’ critical thinking, as Kurfiss (1988) states “Critical
thinking involves justification of beliefs and argumentation is the
vehicle by which justification is offered … learning the skills of
argument enables students to reason effectively in various
disciplines” (1988: 13).
Moreover, an argument expresses and supports a contention
or viewpoint on an issue and an issue is a matter of public debate
on which there are different views (Mc Gregor, 2001: 2). In an
argument, the author presents a point of view and attempts to
persuade others of the validity of his or her opinion (Feez & Joyce,
1998; Shulman, 2004: 148).
Critical thinking is not the same as, and should not be confused
with, intelligence; it is a skill that may be improved in everyone
(Walsh & Paul, 1988: 13). This coincides with Mitchell’s (1998: 41)
suggestion that ‘critical thinking ability is significantly improved by
courses in argumentation and debate and by debate experience’.
Thus, debate is relevant to the necessity of critical thinking
development. In line with this, some schools and universities have
been trying hard to develop students’ critical thinking through
debate activities. Of course, to help developing students’ language
skills of efficient listening, convincing public speaking, and debate
(argumentation) in relation to extensive reading and follow-up
writing. In this measure, students can learn the proper competence
for developing efficient interpersonal communication as well as
getting ready for the challenges of the 21st
century.
Thus, the Theoretical Framework of this study based on the
theories of Functional Linguistic and Functional Grammar especially
Mood and Modality (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004; Eggins & Slade,
1997; Halliday, 1994) function as the fundamental framework in
identifying the assertiveness of arguments in debate. Mood has
evolved out of the requirement that language should serve as a
means of action, a way of exchanging goods-and-services and
information (Halliday, 1989: 68). By looking at the mood structure,
clause by clause, we can see the way the dialogue proceeds as a
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series of exchanges (Halliday, 1994: 102). While, modality refers to
a speaker’s attitude towards, or opinion about the truth of a
proposition expressed by a clause. It also extends to his/her attitude
towards the situation or event described by a clause.
Moreover, this current study uses the theory of the linguistic
features of argumentation (Feez & Joyce, 1998: 142; Derewianka,
1990: 76-78). These theories are indeed significant to help in
analyzing the findings toward the representation of arguments in
debate. As regards the linguistic features of argumentation, cited in
Emilia (2009), when we write arguments, we use whatever language
resources will work most effectively to sway the reader to our way
of thinking (Feez & Joyce, 1998: 141). Therefore Feez & Joyce (1998:
142) suggest the following characteristics (1) introduces and
sequences arguments by using linking devices such as first, second,
furthermore, on the other hand, in conclusion, although, after looking
at both sides of this debate, (2) focuses on the topic and organizes
arguments with topic sentences; (3) explains, describes, and uses
evidence in arguments to make the arguments more ‘factual’ and
so more powerful, (4) uses technical terms and abstract ‘packaging’
nouns, (5) show; cause and effect which are shown with words like
“lead to”,” contributes to”, the consequence, cause, (6) judges and
evaluates; (7) asseses degrees of what is probable or usual by using
must, never, and inevitably asses how probable or usual something
is, (8) uses objective language, (9) attributes assessment to expert
sources; and (10) appeal to the reader.
Moreover, as discussed by Derewianka (1990: 76-78), there are
some expressions used in argumentation. These are, among others
as follows; (1) generalised participants, some times human but often
abstract (issues, ideas, opinions, etc), (2) possibility of technical
terms relating to the issue, (3) variety of verb (process types), such
as action, linking, saying (say, argue, point out, assert), and mental
(think, perceive, understand), (4) mainly timeless present tense
when presenting position and points in the argument, but might
change according to the stage of the text, (5) frequent use of passive
to help structure the text, (6) nominalization to make the argument
sound more objective and to help structure the text, (7) conjunctions
associated with reasoning, (8) arguments quite often employ emotive
words (blatant disrespect, we strongly believe) and verbs such as
“should”. Such emotive language is more appropriate to spoken
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debate, and essays are generally more successful if the writer seeks
to convince the reader through logic and evidence.
Further, the use of two previous studies has each significant
contribution to this study too. Zhixiang’s study (2006) on “A Functional
Analysis of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor in Political Debates”
contributes some perspectives on analyzing mood metaphor and
modality metaphor in debate. Furthermore, Gadd’s study (1999) on
“A Systemic Functional Analysis of a Televised Political Debate before
the 1996 Australian Federal Election” also provides detailed linguistic
analysis and interpretative discussion to help in analyzing
assertiveness of arguments in debate. Unlike these two previous
studies, the present study explores more fully mood and modality
analysis and interpretative discussion in order to investigate the level
of assertiveness in the debate. In other words, this present study
more focuses on mood and modality analysis comprehensively.
Based on the background above, it is the aim of the study to
employ systemic functional analysis especially mood and modality
analysis to analyze arguments in senior high school debate.
2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The subjects of this study are volunteers who are members of
debate club in a private senior high school in Bandung. They have
been familiar with debate activity and debate competition for more
or less one year.
Moreover, the procedures of data collections employed in this
study are observation through recording of descriptive data (Lutz
& Iannaccone, 1969, cited in Marshall, et al., 2006) and discourse
analysis (Travers, 2001: 4). First, the observation is intended to see
the way using language in debate activity. The type of observation
applied on this study is non-participant observation, possessed as
complete observer in which the researcher observes the activities
of a group without in any way becoming a participant in those
activities (Fraenkel & Wallen, 1993: 384). By making use of the
observation, it is expected that the language competence in
expressing their arguments performed by senior high school
debaters may figured out that may be obvious through done through
recording. The second is the discourse analysis. Here, the text of
debate is transcribed from the video into written text in a broad
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sense. The excerpt from the text is then analyzed on the basis of
the following steps. First, dividing sentences carefully clause by
clause, number the sentences and each clause, code the elements
to ease the way of analysis.
Furthermore, in order to get the comprehensive analysis, the
following steps were conducted:
i) Underlining and bolding all related grammatical items of each
clause that meet the criteria of mood and modality devices on
the debate. They are mood devices (mood type, mood adjunct,
and metaphor of mood) and modality devices (modality type,
orientation and manifestation of modality, modality value, and
metaphor of modality).
ii) Listing the classfied data separately into tables, they are firstly
put in in chain of clauses based on the order of speakers.
iii) Dividing the devices into two categories: mood devices and
modality devices. Then, counting the frequency and the
percentage of the fulfillment of mood and modality devices in
the debate, and assembling the data into table.
iv) Interpreting the result of analysis based on the connection of
mood and modality devices.
3. RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This section summarises the results of the study on
representation of arguments in a debate setting. It includes the
analysis of mood system and modality system.
3.1 Mood System in Senior High School Debate
As regards the mood system, it covers mood type, mood adjunct
(conjunctive adjunct), and mood metaphor. Firstly, there are five
types of clauses to be analyzed in the debate: declarative, wh-
interrogative, imperative, elliptical clause, and non-finite.
Table 3.1 presents the total picture of mood types. Overall,
there are 484 items that occured in all speakers in the debate. The
most common used is declarative with 430 occurences (90%).
Meanwhile, the other types are around 1-6%.
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Table 3.1: Total of Mood Types
Clause Type Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total %
Declarative 90
Full 79 55 91 55 48 66 394
Elliptical 10 5 5 6 1 9 36
WH-interrogative 2
Full 2 - - 1 - 3 6
Elliptical - - 2 - - 3 5
Imperative 1 1 1 - 2 1 6 1
Minor - 3 6 4 4 14 31 6
Non finite 1 1 - - - 4 6 1
Total 93 65 105 66 55 100 484 100
% 19 13 22 14 11 21 100
There is a big variety of the mood choices of the speakers in
the debate. In the delivery of arguments, as throughout the debate,
the most common sentence type by an overwhelming margin is
declarative mood with positive polarity (90%). Meanwhile, other
sentence types were spread over the debate around 1-6% as seen in
Table 3.1.
These declarative statements are used to give information and
convey certainty: as Halliday points out, a declarative sentence such
as ‘it is’ conveys the highest possible degree of probability, more
even than ‘it must be’ (1994: 357). In this case, the speakers wish to
appear to be authoritative speaker whose opinions are not to be
doubted.
In this debate, as seen in Chart 3.1, Speaker #2 of Affirmative
Team has the highest percentage (22%) of using declarative in
delivering the argument. However, the difference is not really
significant because the other speakers are around 11-21%.
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Chart 3.1. Comparative Percentages of Declarative Mood
In the debate, Speaker #2 of Affirmative Team is responsible
for rebutting points made by the Negative, continuing with their
arguments, and giving a brief summary of the whole arguments. In
line with this, the speaker mostly uses declarative to convey their
opinions and beliefs through statements in order to convince the
audience. Of course, the use of declarative is intended to make
assertions (Gadd, 1999): So, we believe that if we put this
advertisement on TV, it would make teenagers watch TV, they see the
adv on TV and they will be curious what is cigarette and many others.
In other words that a great majority of declarative mood employed
by Speaker #2 of Affirmative Team shows her assertiveness in
delivering her arguments in the debate.
The second is conjunctive adjunct (conjunction). There are
three categories of conjunctive adjunct to be analyzed in the debate:
elaboration, extension, and enhancement.
Table 3.2 presents the total picture of conjunctive relation.
Overall, there are 309 items that occured in all speakers in the
debate. The most common used is extension with 166 occurences
(54%). Meanwhile, enhancement was employed 127 occurences
(41%), and elaboration was employed 16 occurences (5%).
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Table 3.2: Total of Conjunction Types
Mood Adjunct
(Textual Adjunct- Aff.1 Neg. 1 Aff.2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total %
Conjunctive Adjunct)
Elaboration
Appositive - 1 2 2 2 2 9 3
Clarifying - 1 3 2 - 1 7
Extension
Additive 31 20 33 13 12 14 123 40
Adversative 7 3 6 3 - 5 24 8
Varying 6 3 6 1 2 1 19 6
Enhancement
Matter - - 2 - - - 2 1
Manner - - - - - - - -
Spatio temporal 4 1 2 5 5 7 24 8
Causal conditional 14 13 22 12 13 27 101 32
Total 62 42 76 38 34 57 309 100
% 20 14 25 12 11 18 100
The analysis of conjunctive adjunct tells the structure of logical
relation. This inferres that all speakers convey their arguments
through elaboration, extension, and enhancement. In this debate,
the argument is largely hold together by extending relations, which
is 54% of the debate, they are addition (123 items), adversative
relation (24 items), and variation (19 items) as presented on Table
3.2. In particular, additive of the extension type was the most
common employed by all speakers; that is 123 items (40%). The
other types were spread over the debate round 1-32%. It means that
the speakers’ concern is to tell audience the supplementary
information in order to improve it or make it complete as well as
the link among sentences, or the variation of meaning of the motion.
On the other hand, spatio-temporal and causal-condition were
the most common employed of enhancement in this debate as well;
both of them are causation and consequence where the speakers’
concern is to tell their audience both why things happened and what
would be the result of them. For example, thus, so are used to signal
that a conclusion is construed as the expected outcome of the
argument that has been presented. First, second, next, then are used
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to sequence arguments, or piece of evidence in the debate (Martin
& Rose, 2007: 138).
Moreover, elaboration is rarely used in delivering arguments.
It suggests that the speakers rarely use exemplifying and giving
exploratory when they deliver their arguments. Whereas, giving
example and explanation are crucial in a debate.
Chart 3.2. Comparative Percentages of Conjunction
As seen on Table 3.2 and Chart 3.2, Speaker #2 of Affirmative
Team has the highest percentage of using conjunction (25%).
Meanwhile, the other speakers are around 11-20%. This indicates
that the speaker is extremely well to create cohesion in her
arguments since conjunctive adjunct acts to connect messages in
the discourse (Martin & Rose, 2007: 143). In other words that a
great majority of conjunction employed by Speaker #2 of Affirmative
Team shows her assertiveness through cohesive arguments in the
debate.
As the last mood system, mood metaphor has three
classifications to be analyzed in this study. The classification of
metaphor of mood based on speech function and mood type. They
are question and command in declarative mood, statement and
command in interrogative mood, and statement and question in
imperative mood.
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Table 3.3: Total of Mood Metaphor
Mood Metaphor Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total %
Mood Declarative
Speech - Question 4 2 - 3 4 2 15 39
Function - Command 1 - 1 1 2 2 7 19
Interrogative
- Statement - - 4 - - 6 10 26
- Command - - - - - - - -
Imperative
- Statement 1 1 1 - 2 1 6 16
- Question - - - - - - - -
Total 6 3 6 4 8 11 38 100
% 16 8 16 10 21 29 100
As seen on Table 3.3, overall, there are 38 items that occured
in all speakers in the debate. Speech function was mostly
metaphorically realized in the declarative mood by all speakers with
22 occurences (58%), followed by the interrogative mood with 10
occurences (26%), and interative mood with 6 occurences (16%).
This analysis shows that the incongruent transference in the
process of the realization of speech functions, such as offer
command, statement, and question. One speech function can be
realized by various moods, and one mood can realize different
speech functions. In interacting with another person, the speaker
will inevitably enact one of the speech roles: anything he says will
be intended and interpreted as a statement, or a question, or a
command or an offer. By acting out a role; he is simultaneously
creating a desired role for the other person (even if the other person
is not in turn carry out that role) in asking a question, for example,
the speaker creates the role of answerer for the other person.
However, the speaker may also project a role onto himself or herself
or the other person by the way s/he talks about them.
In this study, commands and questions are mostly realized in
declarative mood (58%). This indicates that the speakers prefer using
declarative mood to metaphorically realize a command instead of
the typical use of the imperative mood. Therefore, their speech tone
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is softened and the social distance between them and the audience
is shortened so that they are more likely to get the audience’s
understanding and support. Also, it is found that debaters sometimes
replace declarative mood with imperative mood for the sake of
emphasis.
Alternatively, the speakers use statements which are realized
in interrogative mood (26%). It suggests that speakers sometimes
play both of the roles of speaker and audience. They ask a question,
and then they answer it themselves. And, this makes the debate
sound as natural and vivid as if it were a dialogue with the audience.
Therefore, the audience is much likely to accept his argument.
In addition to the use of mood metaphor, the speakers also use
statements which are realized in imperative mood (16%). In the
debate as Zhixiang (2006) stated that when they speakers want to
explain something, they usually use the clause let me…, that is, an
imperative tone upon a simple statement. In other words, the
declarative meaning is metaphorically realized through the
imperative structure let me…. This kind of structure serves to make
the speaker’s presentation sound more authoritative.
As seen on Table 3.3 and Chart 3.3, Speaker #3 of Negative
Team has the highest percentage of using mood metaphor (29%).
Meanwhile, the other speakers are around 8-21%. This indicates that
in order to convey the messages of the argument, Speaker #3 of
Negative Team prefers using various strategies by using
metaphorical forms, to achieve her purpose, such as persuading or
evaluating. This is in line with her role in the debate to make
summary speech after the floor debate to review the major issues
of the debate, and to leave a lasting impression on the minds of the
audience or adjudicators.
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Chart 3.3. Comparative Percentages of Mood Metaphor
3.2 Modality System in Senior High School Debate
This section includes modality type, modality value, orientation
and manifestaion of modality, and modality metaphor.
Firstly, as regards with the modality type, there are two
categories to be analyzed in the debate. They are modalization
(epistemic modality), which consists of probability and usuality and
modulation (deontic modality) which consists of obligation and
inclination.
Table 3.4: Total of Modality Type
Modality Types Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total
Modalization Probability 45 11 23 15 13 17 124
(Epistemic) Usuality - - 3 - 2 - 5
Modulation Obligation 7 3 2 - 3 1 16
(Deontic) Inclination 1 2 7 1 5 1 17
Total 53 16 35 16 23 19 162
Table 3.4 presents the total picture of modality type. Overall,
there are 156 items that occured in all speakers in the debate.
Modalization-probability is the most common in all speakers with
124 occurences (77%), followed by modulation-inclination with 17
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occurences (10%), modulation-obligation with 16 occurences (10%),
and modalization-usuality with 5 occurences (3%).
As the dominant modality type, the probability indicates that
the speakers explicitly or implicitly qualifies their commitment to
the truth of the proposition expressed by the sentence they utter
(Lyons, 1977: 797) cited in Vázquez & Giner (2008: 175). This
analysis also inferres that the speakers mostly use probability to
express their attitude towards, or opinion about the truth of a
proposition expressed by a clause. In the debate, as shown in Table
3.5 below, the probability is expressed through the use of modal
finites, mood adjunct, mental verbs, and nominalization to express
the speaker’s degree of force or certainty concerning the claim.
Table 3.5: Probability Indicators
Indicators Frequency %
Modal Finites
Would 9 6
Will 50 34
Can 17 12
Should 4 3
Mood adjunct
Maybe 6 4
Verbs
Know 26 18
Believe 10 7
Realize 2 1
See 3 2
Think 14 10
Nominalization 4 3
Possibility (= it’s possible) 4 3
Total 145 100
According Toulmin (2003: 83), the probability is not only used
as a means of qualifying conclusions and assertions, but also as
indication of the strength of the backing which we have for the
assertion, evaluation or whatever. It is the quality of the evidence
or argument at the speaker’s disposal which determines what sort
of qualifier he is entitled to include in his statements. By qualifying
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the conclusions and assertions in the ways the speakers do, they
authorize their audience to put more or less faith in the assertions
or conclusions to bank on them, treat them as correspondingly more
or less trustworthy.
Chart 3.4. Comparative Percentages of Modality Type
In terms of the percentage of using modality by the speakers,
as shown in Chart 3.4, Speaker #1 of Affirmative Team has the
highest percentage of using modality with 53 occurences (33%).
Whereas, the others are around 10-21%. This indicates that Speaker
#1 of Affirmative Team mostly uses modality expression to show
her attitude towards, or opinion about the truth of the arguments
since modality represents the speaker’s angle: either on the validity
of the assertion or on the rights and the proposal. Particularly, in
line with her role as Speaker #1 of Affirmative Team, she functions
modality to define the motion, to describe exactly what the basis
for debate will be, to explain any ambiguous words, to set any limits
to the debate, to interpret the motion as a whole, and state exactly
what contention is going to be tried and proved.
Secondly, in connection with modality value, there are three
types of modality value that occur in the debate, they are high,
median, and low. These values are in the respect of modality types.
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Overall, as seen on Table 3.6 and Table 3.7, there are 162
occurences of modality value used by the speakers. The result shows
median probability (would, will, think) the most common used by
the speakers with 73 occurences (45%). The second modality value
that mostly employed in the debate is high probability (know,
believe, realize, see) with 41 occurences (25%). The next is low
inclination (can) with 17 occurences (11%), followed by median
obligation (is/are to, should, are supposed to) with 12 occurences
(7%), low probability (possibility, maybe) with 10 occurences (6%),
median usuality (usually) with 5 occurences (3%), and high obligation
(obligation, force) with 4 occurences (3%). On the contrary, there is
no employment of high, low usuality, low obligation, and high,
median inclination.
Table 3.6: Total of Modality Value
Modality Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total
Modalization Probability
(Epistemic) - High 18 5 9 4 2 3 41
- Median 25 6 13 11 6 12 73
- Low 2 - 1 - 5 2 10
Usuality
- High - - - - - - -
- Median - - 3 - 2 - 5
- Low - - - - - - -
Modulation Obligation
(Deontic) - High 1 - 2 - - 1 4
- Median 6 3 - - 3 - 12
- Low - - - - - - -
Inclination
- High - - - - - - -
- Median - - - - - - -
- Low 1 2 7 1 5 1 17
Total 53 16 35 16 23 19 162
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Table 3.7: Modality Indicators
Modality Value Indicators Frequency %
High Modal finite
Have to 1 1
Nominalization
It’s obligation (=it’s obliged) 2 1
Verbs
Know 26 16
Believe 10 6
Realize 2 1
See 3 2
Force (=must) 1 1
Medium Modal finites
Would 9 6
Will 50 31
Should 4 2
Mood adjunct
Usually 5 4
Predicator
Is/are to 7 4
Are supposed to 1 1
Verbs
Think 14 8
Low Mood adjunct
Maybe 6 4
Modal finites
Can 17 10
Nominalization
It’s possibility (=it’s possible) 4 2
Total 162 100
As previously mentioned, probability is dominantly used by
the speakers in delivering their arguments. In addition to the use of
probability, as seen in Table 3.6, median probability has the highest
percentage (45%). The use of median probability by the speakers
indicates that most speakers in the debate convey their opinion with
median certainty since epistemic interpretations have to do with
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knowledge and understanding regarding the level of certainty of a
proposition’s truth (Griffiths, 2006: 111).
In the debate, as seen in Chart 3.5, Speaker #1 of Affirmative
Team, who has the highest percentage of using median probability
(34%), use modal operator (will, would) and mental verb (think) to
show their median level of certainty. Meanwhile, the other speakers
are around 8-18%.
Chart 3.5. Comparative Percentages of Median Probability
Moreover, the speakers use high probability (25%) to deliver
their arguments since they must convince audience concerning their
opinion. In line with Martin, et al. (1997: 70), by using mental verbs
(know, believe, realize, see) the speakers have high level of certainty
to what they understand. In other words, they confidently deliver
their knowledge and understanding through high probability. As the
rest, low probability is expressed through mood adjunct (maybe) to
show the speakers’ low level of certainty.
Thirdly, there are four types of Orientation and Manifestation
of Modality that occured in the debate; they are implicitly subjective,
implicitly objective, explicitly subjective, and explicitly objective.
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Table 3.8: Total of Orientation and Manifestation of Modality
Orientation of Modality Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total
Modalization
Implicitly subjective 27 8 20 8 10 8 81
Implicitly objective 25 10 19 13 10 8 85
Explicitly subjective 30 16 15 11 7 13 92
Explicitly objective - - 3 - 3 - 6
82 34 57 32 30 29 264
Table 3.8 presents the total pictures of orientation and
manifestation of modality employed in the debate. Overall there are
264 devices that occured in all speakers. Explicitly subjective
modality is the most common in all speakers with 92 occurences
(35%). The second type that mostly employed by the speakers is
implicitly objective modality with 85 occurences (32%), implicitly
subjective modality with 81 occurences (31%), and explicitly objective
modality with 6 occurences (2%).
Table 3.9: Modality Indicators
Orientation
and Manifestation Indicators Frequency %
of Modality
Implicitly Subjective Finite Modal
Would 9 6
Will 50 31
Can 17 10
Should 4 2
Have to 1 1
Implicitly Objective Mood adjunct
Maybe 6 4
Usually 5 4
Predicator
is/are to 7 4
are supposed to 1 1
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Orientation
and Manifestation Indicators Frequency %
of Modality
Explicitly Subjective Mental Verbs
Know 26 16
Believe 10 6
Realize 2 1
See 3 2
Think Force (=must) 1 1
Explicitly Objective Nominalization
It’s possibility 4 2
It’s obligation 2 1
Total 162 100
Clearly seen on Table 3.9, the speakers express explicitly
subjective modality through mental verbs such as know, believe,
realize, see, think and causative verb ‘force’ (=must). Meanwhile,
implicitly objective modality is expressed through mood adjunct
(maybe, usually) and predicator (is/are to, are supposed to). Also,
implicitly subjective modality is shown through finite modals (would,
will, can, should, have to) and explicitly objective modality is
expressed through nominalization (it’s obligation, it’s possibility).
As previously mentioned, the dominant orientation and
manifestation of modality is explicitly subjective modality. This
indicates that the debaters try to give the prominence to their point
of view and to highlight the firmness of their attitude or belief so as
to win the audience’s support and understanding (Zhixiang, 2006).
By using mental verbs (know, believe, think, realize, see, feel, want,
tell, say, try), the debaters explicitly construct themselves as the
source of the assessment, and to some extent, place their authority
to assess at risk (Martin, 1995: 23). In line with this, Halliday &
Matthiessen (2004: 624) stated that explicitly subjective modality is
the most effective way that used to give prominence to the speaker’s
own point of view since modality represents the speaker’s angle;
either on the validity of the assertion or on the rights and the
proposal.
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Chart 3.6. Comparative Percentages of Explicitly Subjective Modality
Clearly shown in Chart 3.6, as the most dominant participant
that uses explicitly subjective modality, Speaker #1 of Affirmative
Team shows her assertiveness prominently through some mental
verbs (we know that..., we believe that..., we realize that...). In
particular, Speaker #1 of Affirmative Team is a starter of the debate
who defines the motion, describes exactly what the basis for debate
will be, explains any ambiguous words, sets any limits to the debate,
interprets the motion as a whole, and states exactly what contention
is going to be tried and proved.
As regards with the modality metaphor, the explicitly subjective
and explicitly objective forms of modality are all strictly speaking
metaphorical, since all of them represent the modality as being the
substantive proposition.
Table 3.10: Total of Modality Metaphor
Metaphor of Modality Aff. 1 Neg. 1 Aff. 2 Neg. 2 Aff. 3 Neg. 3 Total
Explicitly subjective 21 4 9 8 4 8 54
Explicitly objective - - 3 - 3 - 6
21 4 12 8 7 8 60
Table 3.10 presents the total picture of modality metaphor.
Overall, there are 60 items that occured in all speakers in the debate.
It is inevitable that explicitly subjective of modality metaphor is the
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most common in all speakers with 54 occurences (90%). Whereas,
explicitly objective modality metaphor was employed 6 times in all
speakers (10%).
Explicitly subjective form of modality is shown through clauses
which based on the semantic relationship of projection. In this type,
the speaker’s opinion regarding the probability that his observation
is valid is coded not as a modal element within the clause, which
would be its congruent realization, but as a separate, projecting
clause in a hypotactic clause complex. For example, to the congruent
form it probably is so corresponds with the metaphorical variant I
think it is so, with I think as the primary or ‘alpha’ clause (Halliday,
2000: 354). The reason for regarding this as a metaphorical variant
is that the proposition is not, in fact, I think; the proposition is it is
so.
In the debate, debaters sometimes would like to emphasize
the subjectivity of their points of view so as to make one’s statement
more assertive; and the most effective way of doing that is to dress
it up as if it was this that constituted the assertion (‘explicit’ I think)
(Halliday, 2000: 362). The subjective nature of the assessment is
reinforced by the modality in a separate clause.
Alternatively, explicitly objective form of modality is
represented through nominalization, such as: possibility, probability,
likelyhood, certainly, unusualness, regularity, typicality, intention,
desire, determination, need, obligation, regulation, compulsion and
so on. By means of these nominalizations, modality is construed as
an unquestionable fact i.e. modality is expressed explicitly with
objectivity.
In line with this, Halliday (2000: 362) points out that one of the
most effective ways of creating objectivity is through the use of
explicitly objective form of modality. By using it, the speaker can
make his or her point of view appear to be a quality of the event
itself because this objectification is clearest in cases where the
modality is expressed in a separate clause, namely in explicitly
objective form.
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Chart 3.7. Representation of Arguments
Overall, as shown in Chart 3.7, arguments are represented
through the extensive use of the declarative mood, and where
markers of modality occur, they indicate median modality. Certainty
is the currency of value in the debate. Therefore it is rarely to find
or never hear the use of modal verbs such as might, could, but we
sometimes hear should, have to. Moreover, debaters use some
mental verbs such as think, believe, know to show their assertiveness
explicitly in their arguments. Also, the cohesive arguments are also
used to show the debaters’ assertiveness. This is shown through
the use of conjunction. Finally, the speakers employ a variety of
ways to convey their arguments which are realized metaphorically
in terms of mood and modality.
4. CONCLUSION
Based on the main findings above, mood and modality anaysis
has shown what principles exist that creates semantic links in the
arguments between sentence and clause. This analysis is helpful to
understand the interpersonal meaning of the debate from a new
perspective, which elaborates the subtleties of language use in this
kind of genre and helps us have a better understanding of it. This
analysis demonstrates that Systemic Functional Grammar,
characterized by its multi-level and multi-function, could provide us
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with a theoretical framework for genre analysis. Moreover, through
the functional analysis, we find that language form is consistent with
its function. Therefore, such a study suggests that similar analysis
could also benefit English learners in their improvement of English
listening, speaking and writing so that they can develop their
communicative competence more effectively.
This study has examined the representation of arguments in
the debate. There are some important things that need further
consideration for future research. This study is limited in terms of
reference materials and time limitation, it is difficult for the
investigation to be comprehensive and exhaustive and many aspects
of the functional grammar and pragmatics in senior high school’s
debate remain untouched. Since senior high school’s debate is only
a small part of public debates, it may not be typical enough to
represent the public debate genre. Finally, the data comes from the
author’s own calculation, which may involves some margin of errors.
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