An Analysis Of Interpersonal Meaning In Sherly Tjoanda’s Instagram Captions

This research analyzes the realizations of Mood in constructing interpersonal meaning in Sherly Tjoanda’s Instagram captions posted in 2026 and related to the education sector of the Program Kerja Prioritas Nasional (PKPN). The research applies the interpersonal metafunction and the Mood system of Systemic Functional Linguistics proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) and employs a descriptive qualitative design with textual analysis. The data consist of 177 independent clauses taken from 15 purposively selected captions, which were analyzed in their original Indonesian form. Each clause was classified as declarative, interrogative, or imperative, analyzed into Subject, Finite, Predicator, Complement, and Adjunct, and then interpreted for its interpersonal meaning. The findings show that declarative Mood is dominant with 141 clauses (79.7%), followed by imperative Mood with 30 clauses (16.9%) and interrogative Mood with 6 clauses (3.4%). Declarative clauses give information about education programs, evaluate events, and state values and commitments; imperative clauses demand actions such as praying, collaborating, accompanying children to school, and reporting school conditions; and interrogative clauses are used rhetorically to prompt reflection. The Mood–Residue analysis shows that the Subject is realized in 76.3% of the clauses and the Predicator in 80.2%, whereas a separate Finite is realized in only 35.0%, mostly through modal, temporal, polarity, and copular items such as akan, harus, adalah, and jangan. It is concluded that the writer constructs the roles of informant, director, and inviter at the same time, presenting education programs as accountable government work and mobilizing the audience to take part in them.