Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)

Political Discourse: The Modality in Donald J. Trumph’s Speech in Riyadh Summit 2017

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Prafina Yunisda, Ahmad Yusuf Firmansyah
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Prafina Yunisda
Available Online December 2019.
DOI
10.2991/soshec-19.2019.48How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Modality, Auxiliary Modal, Deontic Modal, Epistemic Modal, PIMI model, CDA, and Political Discourse.
Abstract

In search of the use of Modality in supporting a political speech and for revealing the tendencies behind it, therefore it examines Donald Trump’s speeches using Types of Modality (Deontic and Epistemic modal) theory [26]; [15]; [12]; [18]; [7] and Power, Identification and Manipulation (PIMI) model theory [4]; [25] under Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. The study implements qualitative method consisting of description and the data are reported in words. As the result, Donald J. Trump uses all type of Modality of Deontic modal (permission and obligation) and Epistemic modal (probability/possibility). The aspects of Permission, obligation, and probability or possibility work in showing the idea of power, ideology, and manipulation. The context support Donald J. Trump speech in his Modality expression to promote against Terrorism intervening Middle East conflicts. Furthermore, the researcher is expected that this tool can be implemented in broader analysis and result in political discourse. The researcher also opens for further study that related to this topic in increasing the critical thinking of the readers, and adding more discussion in language and politics. It is also expected in the future that linguistic study can be a tool of transparency in political field especially in Indonesia.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2019
ISBN
10.2991/soshec-19.2019.48
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/soshec-19.2019.48How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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