THE SYSTEM OF SPEECH FUNCTION IN KIKI SAPUTRI ROASTING STAND-UP COMEDY
Emma Friska Tampubolon, Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A., Ph.D., Prof. Dr. I Wayan Dirgeyasa, M. Hum.

Universitas Negeri Medan

Abstract

Abstract. People in their daily life use language to communicate to each other in order to build interaction. Their way in communicate can be spoken or written communication. Spoken communication is defined as the more richly developed than the written one. Each people in their communication to build an interaction must deal with interpersonal metafunction. In other words, they function their speech through speech functions. This research deals with the speech function analysis on Kiki Saputri^s roasting stand-up comedy. This research investigated the types of speech functions used by Kiki Saputri in her roasting stand-up comedy and how those speech functions realized in mood. This research applied qualitative descriptive method. The data of the research were the utterances of Kiki Saputri in her roasting stand-up comedy. The data were collected with purposive sampling data. The selected data were Kiki Saputri roasting toward government officials since she went viral and being known because of it. From 9 published videos of Kiki Saputri in YouTube, there were only 4 videos selected with different subject to be roasted. The techniques for collecting data were through transcribing the data into text, observing and identifying the data. The results of the research found that Kiki Saputri used the speech function of statement 72.1%, question 11.8%, command 11.2%, offer 0.9%, and even minor 4.0% in her roasting stand-up comedy. In terms of setup or punch, both were delivered mostly by the speech function of statement. However, in proposing the setup, the speech functions were mostly used is command than question which was different from punch deliverance. Meanwhile, the speech function of offer was used mostly in setup. The realization of speech functions were found dominantly in typical realization. Both in setup and punch, the typical and non-typical realization were also occurred. Punch was dominantly delivered by the non-typical realizations of speech functions.

Keywords: SFL, Speech Function, stand-up comedy, Kiki Saputri

Topic: Social, Language and Cultural Education