Rhetorical devices in Kofi Annan's speeches

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Nurlintha, Zahra Anisa (2020) Rhetorical devices in Kofi Annan's speeches. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis has the main objective of researching and understanding how various kinds of rhetorical devices are expressed in Kofi Annan’s speeches. Also, this study aims to find the rhetoric used through words and phrases, various types of evidence, and the most dominant style of language in the speeches. This links with the implementation of the persuasion technique used by the speaker through his various themes of speeches like mediation and crisis resolution, promoting youth leadership, and many other various themes. Therefore the purpose of this study is focused on answering questions of how the use of rhetorical devices expressed through the appealing of emotive terms are reflected in Kofi Annan’s speeches; How the divisions of rhetoric inventions are found in Kofi Annan’s speeches; and what terms by type category of allusion, citation, and authority that are found in Kofi Annan’s speeches. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. The descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the characteristic of the rhetorical devices that are presented in the speeches. The data in the form of speech transcriptions were collected from Kofi Annan’s Foundation Official Website and Nobel-Prize Official Website. The analysis was carried out in-depth by describing the character of the persuasion techniques that are found. After the characteristic of rhetorical devices occurred in speeches are analyzed, the findings from the investigation of the data analysis are then counted to see different numbers of rhetorical devices that are found in Kofi Annan’s speeches. The data shows the form of emotive terms expressed through the use of positive and negative connotations in the selected words and phrases. Also, the rhetoric invention form is divided into two divisions, namely artificial proof, and inartificial proof. The artificial proof is expressed by the speaker through the involvement of laws, contracts, a fact of testimony, and numbers of statistics. Moreover, the expression of ethos, pathos, logos illustrates the form of rhetoric invention inartificial proof that appears in Kofi Annan’s speeches. Then the use of language figures such as analogy, anamnesis, antinomy, apodixis, chreia, epicrisis, parable, fable, martyria, and simile represents the form of rhetoric terms by type of category of allusion, citation, and authority expressed by Annan in his speech. From the overall use of various rhetorical devices, the researcher concludes that the use of laudatory, a fact testimony, logos, and history taking is the most persuasive form implemented by the speaker in his speech.