Political Discourse: The Modality in Donald J. Trumph’s Speech in Riyadh Summit 2017
- 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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- © 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Prafina Yunisda AU - Ahmad Yusuf Firmansyah PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - Political Discourse: The Modality in Donald J. Trumph’s Speech in Riyadh Summit 2017 BT - Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 124 EP - 128 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/soshec-19.2019.48 DO - 10.2991/soshec-19.2019.48 ID - Yunisda2019/12 ER -