Critical discourse analysis of Donald J Trump's speeches

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Rohmah, Siti Nur (2018) Critical discourse analysis of Donald J Trump's speeches. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis examines Donald Trump’s speeches using Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis Theory. It investigates the structure of Critical Discourse Analysis that emerges in Donald Trump speeches and the elements of Socio Cognitive Approach that emerge in Donald J Trump’s speeches. The writer mainly utilizes the structure Critical Discourse Analysis theory by Van Dijk which consists of three structure of analysis consisting of macrostructure and microstructure. Afterwards, the writer adopts Socio Cognitive Approach to analyze the schema of the speech which included in superstructure analysis. Under descriptive-qualitative method, this research significantly gives a wider understanding about how linguistic features emerges trough Critical Discourse Analysis structure. As the result, there are totally 64 expressions that were noticed as linguistic features from three chosen speeches of Donald J Trump. The CDA structure reveals that Donald J Trump consistently uses repetition and irony to involve the emotional attachment of the addressee by using the logical facts and emotional involvement. Then Trump tends to make negative representation of another person group to get his positive representation. Furthermore, the uses of pronoun are mostly aimed to show the unity as the strategy to convince and persuade addressee to being in accord with his argument and administration’s resolution.