Critical Discourse Analysis Of Melania Trump’s Speech Against Cyberbullying

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.