This research is a descriptive, qualitative study by using appraisal system theory developed by J.R Martin and David Rose to determine attitude in text, which is this thesis is a diary written by an astronaut who first set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969. Appraisal system is a theory that concern in attitude; affect, judgment, and appreciation. The first, affect is concerned with registering positive and negative feelings: do we feel happy or sad, confident or anxious, interested or bored? Second is judgment, deals with attitudes towards behavior, which we admire or criticize, praise or condemn. The last, appreciation involves evaluations of semiotic and natural phenomena, according to the ways in which they are valued or not in a given field. The research concern with interpersonal meaning in language, with the subjective presence of writers/speakers in the text as the adopt stances toward both materials they present and those with whom they communicate. The researcher determines attitude via interpersonal meaning and also finds the word value: positive or negative. The researcher finds words written by Neil Armstrong containing an attitude and represents about a perceived feeling of him. The attitude is detected by the appraisal system, if the word has a criteria for that, and will be considered in each kind of attitude; affect, judgment, and appreciation. This theory is used to determine the interpersonal meaning which the words come from evaluation of feelings, character’s people, or things of Neil Armstrong’s utterances. In this case, the research includes in a branch of semantics. In conclusion, the researcher found the dominant attitude detected by the appraisal system, and also with this system, the researcher found a link between the words containing attitude with words that led to this attitude appear and provide a value. The result is the appreciation which has a dominant attitude in Neil Armstrong’s diary, the evaluations more dominant to explain the things from his utterances. The value of Neil Armstrong’s diary has already known from when his successful landing on the moon: positive value.

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