Browsing by Author "AYANG WINDA SRI WIDIANINGSIH"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    THE CANDIDATES BELIEFS IN 2016 U.S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATE THROUGH PRESUPPOSITION: A PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE STUDY
    (2017-09-13) AYANG WINDA SRI WIDIANINGSIH; Elvi Citraresmana; Lia Maulia Indrayani
    This thesis is entitled “The Candidates’ Beliefs in 2016 U.S Presidential Election Debate through Presupposition : A Pragmatic Discourse Study”. The objectives of the study were to describe and anlyze the types of Presupposition and the belief of those candidates. This study uses qualitative descriptive method; The researcher chose document analysis research technique in analyzing the data. This research applied the types of presupposition by Yule (1996) and Belief by Van Dijk (1998). The analysis showed that there are six types of presuppositions such as : Existensial, Factive, Lexical, Structural, Non-Factive and Counter-Factual Presupposition. When delivering their belief, both candidates using conjunction, context, coherence and also cohessive. First candidate’s belief, Hillary Clinton, showed her personal beliefs because Hillary knew everything how to be a president, how to lead the country, how to work with other country and how to get new jobs to make American be better because Hillary had sufficient experience. Apart from that, Hillary take the name of President Obama to strengthen the belief that all people have more confidence in her because she presents the facts in accordance with the actual situation. While, the second candidate, Donald Trump examines social beliefs because he explores what happens to their country, including the greatest financial crisis. Donald claims of his own great deeds as a result that had given birth certificates for president. Besides, Donald also claimed that Hillary who had experience as the secretary of the state was not so astute in leading this country and it was evident from the phenomenon occur, many failures made by the present government that making a loss for the country.