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Power, Language, And Ideology Of Barack Obama Speech

HARRERA, ANDREA EKA PREMASADHA (2014) Power, Language, And Ideology Of Barack Obama Speech. Skripsi Sastra Inggris.

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    Abstract

    This thesis presents Critical Discourse Analysis entitled Power, Language,and Ideology Obama’s Speech, in this case the researcher chooses the speech ofObama as the data, when he came to Indonesia last year. The aim of this thesis isto find out the power, language, and ideology of Obama’s speech.This thesis starts by describing several theories of critical discourse analysisin correlation to discourse and speech. Then, the discussion was analyzed by usingThomas Huckin’s three methods of critical discourse analysis. The method of thisresearch was descriptive qualitative which described the fact and characteristicsystematically. The unit of analysis was utterances, since the data were writtentext or script of the speech taken from a web.In this research, the speech tried to be friendly with the audience. At thebeginning of speech, the speaker told the audience about his life when he lived atIndonesia. The body of the speech mostly exposed about the relationship betweenIndonesia and United States of America. The most interesting thing is that thespeaker put a “bahasa” on the speech which is good for the situation between thespeaker and the audience.The finding and the result of Critical Discourse Analysis is the CriticalDiscourse Analysis can explore the relationships among language, ideology andpower. It provides a new idea and method to analyze public addresses. So it isworth for us to pay more attention.From the side of language that the speaker used formal language that caneasily shorten the distance between the speaker and the audience.From the ideology of the speaker of the speech is so powerful, to createimagination the listener and also to persuade the listener.From the Power of the speaker side that the speech proves the speaker hasa power of the speech like the enthusiasm the peo

    Item Type: Article
    Subjects: Universitas Dian Nuswantoro > Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa Inggris
    Z Literatur, Sastra > Bahasa Inggris
    Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa Inggris
    Library of Congress Subject Areas > Z Literatur, Sastra > Bahasa Inggris
    Depositing User: Psi Udinus
    Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2014 11:12
    Last Modified: 11 Dec 2014 21:38
    URI: http://eprints.dinus.ac.id/id/eprint/14017

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