%0 Thesis %9 Skripsi %A AMALIA NAZLA SALDINA, NIM, 15150048 %B Fakultas Adab dan Ilmu Budaya %D 2019 %F digilib:35079 %I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA %K Appraisal, The Viewers’ Comments, Attitude, Engagement, Graduation.Appraisal, Komentar Penonton, Attitude, Engagement, Graduation. %P 139 %T AN APPRAISAL ANALYSIS OF VIEWERS’ COMMENTS IN TARIQ RAMADAN’S INTERVIEW %U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/35079/ %X ABSTRACT Language is used as a tool to convey opinions, feelings, and negotiations between humans. In this era, the ease of using language to communicate is supported by the presence of social media, one of the media is YouTube. YouTube serves as a video sharing media from all over the world, which has a comment platform for everyone to express opinions or feelings toward the videos they watch. This, of course, will bring out a variety of attitudes from the viewers delivered through the language they write in the comments. One of them was the viewers’ comments in the interview video of Tariq Ramadan, which discussed controversial issues titled Trump, Terrorism and The Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the stances shown by the viewers of the video, by using qualitative descriptive methods and appraisal theory by Martin and White. The conclusion is the viewers employ 107 attitude items. They show positive and negative of their feelings, judgments, appreciations, and delivered directly and indirectly. The researcher also found the attitude of four viewers who do not position their language engaged with others when writing the comments, while other viewers referred 37 items of external information and others opinion in writing their comments. The researcher also found the employed 46 items that showed the high and low attitude of the viewers. Keywords: Appraisal, The Viewers’ Comments, Attitude, Engagement, Graduation %Z Arif Budiman, S.S., M.A