Deixis Interpretation On Donald Trump's Speech

Abstract

This study deals with Interpretation on Donald Trump’s Speech. It was aimed at investigating kinds of deixis Interpretation on Donald Trump’s speech, to describe realization of deixis Interpretation on Donald Trump’s Speech, and to describe the reason for realization of deixis on Donald Trump’s speech. This study was conducted by applying qualitative research. The source of data was script of Donald Trump’s speech on sept.19, 2017. Data were analyzed sentences by sentences which contained kinds of deixis on Donald Trump’s Speech. The result showed that there were 109 data on Donald Trump’s speech Specifically 74 (67.89%) for person deixis, 14 (12.85%) for spatial deixis, 7 (6.43%) for temporal deixis. 13 (11.92%) for discourse deixis, 1 (0.91%) for the social deixis. The most dominant types of deixis found in Donald Trump’s speech were person deixis. It means that in this speech, President Donald Trump basically as the first speaker in United Nation General Assembly. The result showed that there were two ways of deixis realized found in Donald Trump’s speech, namely direct and indirect speech. In Donald Trump’s speech showed that reports speech or thought in its original form phrased by the original speaker. The reason of deixis realized in Donald Trump’s speech to avoid ambiguities meaning in an utterance is not clear by knowing the context and background knowledge about the topic being discussed. In addition, this reason was used to know directly the speaker’s utterances in his speech.