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The aim of this study were (1) to find of the kinds of ambiguity in Donald Trump‘s
speech (2) to find the meaning of ambiguity in Donald Trump‘s speech.The writer
uses the data from Donald Trump‘s Politic Address, President Trump‘s inaugural
Address, Annotated edition of January 20,2017 10:13 A M E T. This study uses a
descriptive qualitative method . Ullmann (1977: 156) defines ambiguity as a linguist
in condition which can arise in a variety of ways There were 25 data are analyzed in
terms on ambigious meaning from phrase or sentence in Donald Trump‘s speech .
There were 23 words in lexical ambiguity and 2 in grammatical ambiguity. The
occurances of lexical ambiguity in Donald Trump‘s speech happened in the word
level and it is caussed by Polysemy and Homonymy. There were 15 polysemy and 8
homonymy. The occurances of grammatical ambiguity happened in the phrases and
sentence level and it is caused by grammatical structure . There were 2 phrases based
on speech Donald Trump‘s. |
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