Cohesive devices in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Presidential election 2016 of United State of America

Rahman, Rezi Fauzi (2023) Cohesive devices in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Presidential election 2016 of United State of America. Sarjana thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

The existence of cohesive devices in speech is able to represent language works. Apart from the effectiveness of writing, it will also convey listeners to the realm of context which makes a general agreement in understanding meaning. The formulation of the research problem concerns grammatical and lexical cohesions are represented in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on presidential election 2016 of United States of America. As well as the purpose of this study to determine the representation of both. The research method is the qualitative method. The application of a qualitative method means the data is generated in the form of words and sentences (pauses) on this research. It is obvious that qualitative research tends to rely on expressive elaboration and personal description of a case. The results of the research are; 1) Grammatical cohesion in Trump’s inauguration speech on presidential election 2016 which is occurred on January 20th 2017 contains four types of those; references, substitutions, ellipsis and conjunctions. In the number of pauses, there are 29 pauses contains repetition. Then, substitution there are 6 pauses. Next, ellipsis there are 8 pauses, and the last, conjunctions there are 31 pauses. By the results, Trump’s inauguration speech, it has a cohesive level of language because it has a complementary sequence of text and context realms. 2) Lexical cohesion is so stunning with various elements that make it very cohesive. There are six of those in Trump’s inauguration speech; repetition in 32 pauses, synonymy in 10 pauses, antonym in 5 pauses, hyponym in 3 pauses, meronymy in 2 pauses, and collocation in 6 pauses. By speech of Trump which is very full of stern, satirical and vulgar language with what has been conveyed in the speech, Trump was so confident that America under Trump’s leadership would prosper and advance in accordance with the hopes and dreams of all American citizens. Also, with the discussion of Trump’s speech here, there are many references to the previous leadership which was still considered incompetent and far from America’s hopes and goals. Trump understood very well that a text especially to be conveyed to America and even the world must be very good and attractive in order to show the political style and work spirit that Trump wanted to take.

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