Political speech is an effective means of promoting international communication. The interpersonal function is one of the meta-functions of Halliday’s Systemic Functional linguistics. Based on the theory of interpersonal function, with LancsBox6.0 as a research tool, this research analyzes the use of modal verbs and personal pronouns in political discourse with the keynote speech by Xi Jinping at the Opening Ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 as a corpus. The results show that in political discourse, speakers often use a declarative mood to convey information. In terms of modality, speakers mostly use median and high-value modal verbs. In terms of personal pronouns, the first person and the third person are often adopted. In the context of century-change, international communications including political communications are of particularly great importance. Therefore, figuring out the interpersonal meaning in the political speech discourse is necessary and significant.

Presupposition is a significant concept in the study of language, both in semantics and pragmatics. However, there are ongoing debates among linguists regarding its nature, leading to different perspectives. Taking into account, the semantic view proposed by Levinson, which identifies six types of Presupposition, this study aims to explore the role of semantic presupposition (referred to as SP) in facilitating the interpretation of texts. The focus of this study is the analysis of Anton Chekhov's short story, "The Orator," using the framework of the six types of SP mentioned earlier. The research is organized into four sections, along with a bibliography. The first section serves as an introduction, outlining the background and context of the study. In the second section, the theoretical foundations relevant to the research are presented. The third section details the methodology employed, including the analysis of selected data and the presentation of the findings. Lastly, the fourth section offers the study's conclusions and recommendations. In summary, this study investigates the role of semantic presupposition in decoding texts, utilizing Chekhov's short story, "The Orator," as a case study. By examining the story through the lens of the six types of SP, the study aims to provide insights into the interpretative potential enabled by semantic presupposition.

In this study we are dealing with one of these great dramatists, namely Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill is considered the father of modern American drama. He believes that the dramatist should know no limitation in his works; he should try everything that can be dramatized, he also believes that the playwright ought not to restrict himself to one type of writing, he should be experimental. O’Neill himself did not stick to one type of writing he was innovative in his works. He made use of such modern European tides and schools as naturalism, expressionism, realism and others. The present study aims at tracing the dramatic experiments in O’Neill’s play Anna Christie (1922) and bringing these elements to the surface to be analyzed. This paper focuses on naturalism as a literary movement that originated in France in the nineteenth century; then it explains the naturalistic elements in O’Neill’s play Anna Christie (1922) that won the Pulitzer prize.

This study aims to explore about vocational student’s perception of SMKN 2 Batu towards synchronous and asynchronous especially in English learning. This study involved English students of 10^th grade, 11^th grade, 12^th grade and 13^th grade in SMKN 2 Batu. This study discussed about student’s perception towards asynchronous and synchronous platform especially the benefits and the challenges in English learning based on vocational student’s perception. Adopted a questionnaire from Al-Kathiri [1] which questions students’ perception of the use of online learning platforms. There were a total of 30 questionnaires responded by the students in SMKN 2 Batu. The results of this study show that the vocational student’s perception of the use of asynchronous and synchronous in English learning is positive, indicates by the total mean of 3.37. The average mean in the benefits aspect is positive as indicated by a mean of 3.69 in term of mobility, communication and interaction, comfortably, efficiency, platform services, accessibility, learning budget, language skills, sharing, acquiring vocabulary, reading experience, listening skills, feedback and complementing learning process. The challenges aspect is neutral, indicates by a mean of 3.05 in terms of the use, navigation and internet connection. Based on the average mean data of the questionnaire, it shows that the vocational students more perform well and participate actively in the asynchronous platform.