Appraisal And Genre In Tilik Short Movie: In Appraisal Perspectives

Abstract

This study investigates the interpersonal meaning in the Indonesian short movie Tilik through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, focusing on appraisal and genre analysis. Employing a qualitative descriptive method, the research analyzes dialogues from Tilik to examine how attitudes are constructed and how social relations among characters are linguistically negotiated. The data were obtained from the short movie published by Ravacana Films on YouTube and were manually transcribed for analysis (Ravacana Films, 2018). Drawing on Appraisal framework, the study concentrates on the Attitude system, comprising affect, judgment, and appreciation (Martin and White, 2006). While Genre theory is applied to identify the genre structure of the character dialog (Martin & Rose, 2008). The findings reveal that Tilik follows a narrative genre structure consisting of orientation, complication, evaluation, resolution, and coda. In terms of appraisal, judgment emerges as the most dominant attitude resource, indicating that the characters frequently evaluate others’ behavior, morality, and credibility, particularly in the context of gossip.