LGBT issue as human rights in Hillary Clinton's speech on Human Rights Campaign Organization: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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Cynthia, Dea Afifa (2019) LGBT issue as human rights in Hillary Clinton's speech on Human Rights Campaign Organization: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research examines Hillary Clinton’s speech in Human Right Campaign Organization using Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis Theory (1988). It investigates the structure of Critical Discourse and its elements to indicate Hillary Clinton’s ideology towards her speech about LGBT as human rights. The researcher also focuses on Socio Cognitive Approach that emerge in Hillary Clinton's speech. The writer mainly utilized Critical Discourse Analysis theory by Van Dijk which consists of several CDA structure, there are microstructure, superstructure, and macrostructure of the text.As the methodology, the researcher used descriptive-qualitative approach to concern the description and the interpretation of Hillary Clinton’s speech. Under descriptive-qualitative method, this research significantly gives a wider understanding about how linguistic features emerges through Critical Discourse Analysis structure. The researcher gathered the data by downloading Hillary Clinton’s speech and categorized the data to be analyzed in microstructure, superstructure and macrostructure by Van Dijk. The researcher also used Socio Cognitive Approach to elaborate the superstructure schema.As the result, Hillary Clinton used some of linguistics features to manipulate her language, and it is aimed to persuade her listener about her ideology. As the result, Hillary Clinton’s ideology toward the LGBT issue in Human Rights Campaign Organization is liberalism progressive. Liberalism progressive means the individual is not only focused on the equality and injustice in each individual, but also focuses on the progress or the movement of how the goals can be reached. There are several elements that exist in Hillary Clinton speech according to Socio Cognitive Approach such as impression management strategy, mind control, and create other individual images. Hillary Clinton also used rhetoric art of speaking to impress her audience and show her symphaties in LGBT rights abuses.