Presupposition In Donald Trump's Speech To United Nation General Assembly

Abstract

This study deals with the presupposition of Donald trump’s speech to United Nations General Assembly. The objective of this study were to find out the types of presupposition and to comprehend the presupposition of the selected uttered by Donald trump. The source of data for this research were collected from the script of the speech, all the data related to the presupposition. The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative method. Technique of data collection used was documentary method where the data collected by categorizing and classifying the written document that has relation with the problem discussed. The steps in collecting data were transccribing the data, reading the script of the interview of Anies Baswedan with Stanford Humanities Center than underlining the selected utterances that has presupposition, classified them in each types of presupposition based on Yule’s theory. The results showed that in the interview there were all of the six types of presupposition except counterfactual. The presuppositions found were existensial, factive, lexical, structural, non-factive. It was found that Donald Trump presupposed 31 data or 51.7% of existensial presupposition. Then there were 17 data or 28.3% of factive presupposition. For lexical presupposition there were 7 data or 11.7%. Then 2 data or 3.3%, the last was cstructural which were 3 data or 5%. Counterfactual Presupposition which there was no presupposed by the speaker, it is because in the speech Donald Trump did not mention all the things that opposite of what was true or contrary of facts.