ATTITUDINAL SUBSYSTEM IN DONALD TRUMP`S SPEECH AT ARAB ISLAMIC AMERICAN SUMMIT: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC STUDY
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2018-04-09
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This thesis entitled “Attitudinal Subsystem in Donald Trump’s Speech at Arab Islamic American Summit: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Study”. The objective of this research is to analyze and describe attitudinal subsystem and its realization at lexicogrammatical stratum. This research conducted appraisal theory (Martin and White, 2005) only focuses on attitudinal subsystem under the notion Systemic Functional Linguistic Study. Attitudinal subsystem deals with feelings, including emotional reactions, judgments of behavior and evaluation of things. The data are taken from Donald Trump’s Speech at Arab Islamic American Summit. The research uses qualitative descriptive method. The result of this research shows that there are three types of attitudinal subsystem: Affect, Judgement and Appreciation. The most dominant appearance is Judgement over Affect and Appreciation. Both Affect and Judgement appear in Nominal Group, Verbal Group and Adverbial Group. Differently, Appreciations only appear at Nominal Group. Those appraisal items have different experiential structures. Based on data symptom, it is found that in Judgement, Modality of Modalization and Modulation are more dominant rather than lexical item. The most dominant value is positive rather than negative. Donald Trump preferred the negation of positive value rather than negative value. In conclusion, Donald Trump was very careful to convey his appraisal relating to the topic because the summit was attended by 55 Islamic nations.
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Attitudinal subsystem, Group, Experiential structure