An Analysis of Assertive Utterance in Donald Trump’s Speeches

Abstract

This research deals with the Analysis of Assertive Utterances in Donald Trump‟s Speeches by used Kreidler Theory. The objective of this research were 1) to find out what the kinds of focuses assertive utterance which are found in Donald Trump‟s speeches, and 2) to derive the most dominant focus assertive utterance which are found in Donald Trump‟s speeches. Descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. The sources of the data were derived from Donald Trump‟s speeches transcript. In collecting the data, the researcher taking the speech videos from the Internet, downloading the speech transcript from the internet, watching the speech videos and listening to the assertive utterances that use in speech, identifying the assertive utterances of the speech, classifying kinds of focuses of assertive utterances, and making table to each sentence of assertive utterances. In analyzing the data, the researcher used theory proposed by Miles and Huberman that consist of three procedures: 1) Data Reduction, 2) Data Display, and 3) Drawing and Verifying Conclusion. The research shows that: 1) the kinds of focuses assertive utterance which are found in Donald Trump‟s speeches are: on information was 98 (41.35%), on truth-value of utterance was 74 (31.20%), on speaker‟s commitment or involvement in what is reported was 29 (12.25%), on manner of communicating was 19 (8.00%), on the nature of the message was 5 (2.10%), and focus on aspect was 12 (5.10%). And 2) the most dominant focus assertive utterance found in Donald Trump‟s speeches was focuses on information with 98 or 41.35%