Interaction of Process and Circumstances in Speech of Donald Trump

Abstract

This study deals with Interaction of Process and Circumstances in Speech of Donald Trump. It was aimed to investigate types of process and circumstances are used on Donald Trump’s speech, to describe process of interaction and circumstance are used on Donald Trump’s speech, and to elaborate reason for realization of the interaction of process and circumstances on Donald Trump’s speech. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The sources of data were taken from script of Donald Trump’s speech November 9, 2016. The instrument in this study was observation and document. The result showed that There were 55 data found in Donald Trump’s speech. Specifically 15 (27.27%) for material process, 11 (20%) for mental process, 11 (20%) for relational process, 5 (9.09%) for behavioral process, 9 (16.36%) for verbal process, and 4 (7.28%) for existential process. The most dominant process is material process followed by Relational and Mental process, and minor processes which are Verbal, Existential and Behavioral, in the circumstance there were 17 data specifically 6 (35.29%) for manner, 3 (17.64%) for location, 3 (17.64%) for cause, 2 (11.76%) for extend ,0 (0%) for contingency ,1 (5.89%) for accompaniment ,0 (0%) for role ,1 (5.89%) for matter and 1 (5.89%) for angle and the most dominant circumstances used in Donald Trump’s speech is manner