Abstract:
This research discusses about Melania Trump‟s speech about Against
Cyberbullying. The objectives of this research were to finding the discourse
structures and the ideology behind of Melania Trump's speech. This research used
descriptive qualitative method to describe and analyze the data. The analysis
focused on the critical discourse analysis on Melania Trump's speech text. The
data were the utterances presented by Melania Trump. The technique of data
analyzing was from the data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. The
research finding showed that there were 3 kinds of discourse structures, namely
Macrostructure, Microstructure and Superstructure. (1)Macrostructure: Thematic,
that only has 1 expressions. (2)Microstructure: Syntaxes Style that were divided
into 5 categorized from, namely Persuasion which has 5 expressions, Impression
Management which has 1 expressions, Cohesion which has 20 expression and
Pronoun which has 13 expressions. Semantic Style that were divided into 2
categorized, namely Background and Details which has 1 expressions and
Presupposition which has 2 expressions. Stylistic Style that only has 1 categorized
namely Lexical Choice which has 2 expressions. Rhetorical Style that were
divided into 2 categorized, namely Hyperbole which only has 1 expression and
Repetition which has 9 expressions. (3)Superstructure: Schemata, which only has
1 expressions. Cohesion is more dominant element of discourse structures that
found in Melania Trump‟s speech. The researcher found that the ideology behind
of Melania Trump‟s speech was to persuade the audience and parents to fight
together cyberbullying.
