THE TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST SEGMENT IN THE THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY

ANIS, AFIANTI (2015) THE TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST SEGMENT IN THE THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

This thesis, entitled “The Transitivity Analysis of The First Segment in The Third Presidential Debate between President Barrack Obama (PBO) and Mitt Romney (MR)”, has two objectives: finding out the kinds of transitivity and the field of discourse involved in the debate text of the first segment between President Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney. This analysis is based on the theory by Gerot and Wignell (1994) and Eggins (2004). In this study, the researcher uses descriptive method in analyzing data because the researcher tries to analyze and identify each clause transcription in all process types, participants, circumstances and field of discourse of the debate text between PBO and MR of the first segment that were taken on October, 27 2014. There are 586 clauses found from the whole utterances of two speakers. There are 225(38.6%) material processes, 3(0.5%) behavioural processes, 45(7.7%) verbal processes, 21(3.6%) mental of cognitive processes, 41(7.04%) mental of affective processes, 14(2.4) mental of perceptive processes, 213(36.5%) relational of attributive processes, 12(2.06) relational of identifying processes and the last is 8(1.37%) existential processes, while meteorological process is not found in the analysis. There are found 402 participants of PBO and 536 of MR involved in the debate text. Meanwhile, the circumstances involved in the debate text are circumstance of place, time, manner, cause, role, and accompaniment. There are 71 circumstances of PBO and 79 circumstances of MR are involved in the debate text Material process is the dominant process used by PBO while Relational of attributive process is dominant used by MR. It is because PBO works as the president of America and MR is a president candidate.

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