The Linguistic Aspects on the 2019 Presidential Candidate Debate

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.048How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Language variety, Linguistic aspects, Presidential candidates’ debate

Abstract

The presidential candidate debate was held five times by the General Election Commision (KPU) from January 17 to April 13, 2019. This is regulated in Law No. 7 of 2017, known as the Election Law. In the debate, there were discussion and exchange of opinions on a matter that must be defended. This study described the linguistic aspects used by the presidential candidates on the 2019 presidential candidate debate. This study employed a qualitative descriptive method with heuristic analysis. The data was collected by examining the notes taking technique. The results point out that during the 2019 presidential candidates’ debate, both presidential candidates use language style, satire, allusion, tautology, and rhetoric. The presidential candidates use a variety of official languages, sociolect, various literary languages, a variety of journalistic languages and a variety of familiar languages. They use dictions, such as foreign word choices, absorption, special, general, popular, and connotations. Moreover, they also use code switching and code mixing.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulian Dinihari
AU  - Endang Wiyanti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - The Linguistic Aspects on the 2019 Presidential Candidate Debate
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 255
EP  - 259
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.048
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.048
ID  - Dinihari2020
ER  -