An Analysis On Barack Obama’s Speech Viewed From Grammatical Cohesion

Fitria Ningsih, Octa (2019) An Analysis On Barack Obama’s Speech Viewed From Grammatical Cohesion. Other thesis, IAIN Bengkulu.

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Octa Fitria Ningsih. 2019. An Analysis On Grammatical Cohesion Of Barack Obama’s Speech on November 2016 Based On Halliday and Hasan Theory. English Letter Study Program, Islamic Education and Tadris Faculty. Thesis, English Education Study Program, Tarbiyah and Tadris, State Institute of Islamic (IAIN) Bengkulu. Supervisor: 1. Dr. Syamsul Rizal, M.Pd 2. Detti Lismayanti, M.Hum. This study is aimed to find out what is the types, dominant and function on Barack Obama’s speech on November 2016. This study was designed as qualitative study because it analyzes the data from of word descriptively; This research used document analysis as its approach during the process of research, the researcher collecteddocument. The document which is used in this reseach Obama’s Speech in AmericanRhetoric.com. The analysis was concern with types of grammatical cohesion (reference and conjunction). After analyzing the data the reseacher found grammatical cohesion has function on Obama’s speech, there three functions of grammatical cohesion found within the speech. The researcher found the types of grammatical cohesion are reference and conjunction. From the analysis it can be said that there are 9.662 data, found on four speeches. Where are the reference has 6.746 items and conjunction 2.816 items that the mostly used the reference with percentage 70,55% while conjunction it was 29,45%. Reference has three important functions; (1) to avoid repeating the same words, (2) to point out a scale of proximity, and (3) to compare something or situation. Second is conjunction, it has five functions are (1) to relate similar or identical words, (2) to coordinate sentences which have the same context, (3) to support previous sentence, (4) to opposite the preceding statement, (5) to connect between cause and effect in a sentence. Third, the general and basic function of grammatical cohesion is to relate words, clauses, phrases, or sentence in order to make the sentence meaningful. By reviewing this study, it is expected to give valuable contribution to the language users; speakers and writers. This study can be used as additional information in learning and applying good grammatical cohesion especially in the speech text. Moreover, this study also expected will be useful for next researcher who interserted in doind similar study and for those who have a great attention to the cohesion in both of written and spoken text. Keywords: Cohesion, Grammatical Cohesion, Halliday and Hasan Theory

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