Abstract:
This study deals with Circumstance in Donald Trump’s Speech. The objectives of the
study were to describe the types of Circumstances, to describe how Circumstances
used and to describe why Circumstances used in Donald Trump’s Speech.the source
of data for this research was taken from Donald Trump’s Speech script ‘United
Nations General Assembly’ on Sept 19, 2017 in 42 minutes duration. The research
design of this study was qualitative research. The techniques of data collection was
browsing, transcribing and printing the script of Donald Trump’s Speech that has
relation with the problem discussed. The step of analyzing data was reading the
script, underlining the script, identifying and classifying extent, location and manner,
and describing how and why circumstances used in Donald Trump’s Speech. The
result shows that in Donald Trump’s Speech there were extent, location and manner
of circumstances. Total circumstances of extent are 0 for spatial and 3 for temporal;
location are 34 for spatial and 5 for temporal and manner are 3 for means, 1 for
quality and 2 for comparision. And the most dominant type of circumstances that
occur in Donald Trump’s Speech is location. And the reason Donald Trump used
circumstances to authenticated his arguments and also to clarify or convey the content
of the speech in more detail .
