Text Construction in Arabic News About Cairo International Book Fair Based on the Perspective Language Functions of Halliday
Balkis Nur Azizah, Abdul BasidThe function of language in the millennial era tends to be neglected, impacting the drastic decline in language morality. This is because people are indifferent to the function of language in both text and expressions. Function, in general, is a fathet that people use language as a means of communication in everyday life so that the role of language functions is interrelated between one function and another; it must relate to itself and the descriptions of the situation when the language is used. The research method used is descriptive qualitative.The results obtained in this study are (1) there are two forms of choice and desire in the instrumental function; (2) there are two forms of control that lead to the function of the regulator; (3) there are two forms of interaction and planning in the interactional function; (4) there are two forms of hypothesis and question and answer on the heuristic function; (5) there are two forms of expression and feeling in personal functions; (6) there are two forms of imagination exploration and novel on imaginative function; (7) there are four forms of explanation and description of the representative function.
