Maintaining Confessional Discourse through Presupposition in Feminist Speech

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10.2991/soshec-19.2019.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

presupposition, confessional discourse, feminist discourse, speech

Abstract

This research took an online media provided by the TEDxEuston annual events that feature new thinking about Africa and African leadership. This research completed the two research questions that analyzed the types of presupposition used in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech “We should all be feminist” and determine to what extent the presupposition contribute the confessional discourse of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Speech. The research method was a qualitative research that analyzed the confessional discourse in the text of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech. The data focused on confessional sentences that were maintained with presupposition expression. The finding shows that Chimamanda Ngozi used the three confessional discourse functions (therapeutic, didactic, and interrogatory) through presupposition types. The presupposition types that contribute those three functions of confessional discourse are existential, lexical, factive, non-facive, structural, and conterfactual. The elaboration between the functions of confessional discourse and the presupposition types has formed results into the main idea of power-sharing agreement. This agreement briefly brought out Chimamanda’s main purpose in getting agreement and high trusted from her audiences toward her feminist point of view. The purpose issued the functions into a recognition of personal identity and declaration some suggestive statement. In conclusion, Chimamanda focused her confession on women because the main topic of the speech is about the feminist and to those women who are carelessly concerned in the society. Moreover, presupposition form in the confessional discourse established the connection between

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© 2019, 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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AU  - Lisetyo Ariyanti
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TI  - Maintaining Confessional Discourse through Presupposition in Feminist Speech
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