Aris Novi, 0203516006 (2018) THE COMPARISON BETWEEN APPRAISAL OF DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON REALIZED IN THE CAMPAIGN SPEECHES OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Novi, Aris. 2018. The Comparison Between Appraisal of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Realized in the Campaign Speeches of the United States Presidential Election 2016. A Thesis. English Language Education. Pascasarjana. Universitas Negeri Semarang. Advisor I: Sri Wuli Fitriati, S.Pd., M.Pd., Ph.D Advisor II: Dr. Djoko Sutopo, M.Si. Keywords: comparison, appraisal, the campaign speeches of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Communication is the activity of using language that is motivated by the purpose of transactional and interpersonal meaning. The transactional purpose allows the participants to exchange the information, meanwhile the interpersonal meaning sees the language as a medium to establish social relationship among the participants. This study aims to compare and explain the appraisal resource of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton realized in the campaign speeches of the United States Presidential Election 2016. Besides, it is also important to identify the pedagogical implication of study towards the English language teaching and learning. This study is discourse analysis, by employing appraisal framework (Martin & White, 2005). The analysis works on disclosure the utilization of appraisal resources; attitude, engagement, and graduation utilized by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the campaign speeches of the United States Presidential election 2016. In this phase, their first and last campaign speeches were taken as the data in this study since they could portray the overall issues during the campaign rally. The findings show that Donald Trump deployed 876 appraising items in the first speech and 524 appraising items in the last speech. It is identified that the speeches were replete with the expressions of engagement with 444 items in the first speech and 251 items in the last speech. In the campaign speeches of Hillary Clinton, there were 569 appraising items found in the first speech and 196 appraising items in the last speech. In this phase, engagement with 222 items in the first speech and 79 items in the last speech were the most significant feature used by the speaker. In dealing with the similarities of appraisal deployed by both speakers, it relies on attitude (appreciation) in the last speech, engagement (entertain) in the first speech, and graduation (force) in the all speeches. Meanwhile, the differences of appraisal were found in attitude (affect and judgment) in all speeches, attitude (appreciation) in the first speech, and engagement in the last speech. In relation to the pedagogical implication of the study, it suggests that teaching English with appraisal contextualized in hortatory text (exposition) is an appropriate technique, the students are engaged to experience the relevant English language skills effectively and produce text properly as well as behave appropriately.

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