Wilda Prameswari Putri, 2201412145 (2016) THEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF EMMA WATSON’S SPEECH ON GENDER EQUALITY AT THE UNITED NATIONS. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Putri, Wilda Prameswari. 2016. Thematic Development of Emma Watson‟s Speech on Gender Equality at the United Nation. Final Project. English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Semarang State University. Advisors: 1. Maria Johana Ari Widayanti, S.S., M.Si. 2. Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi, S.S., M.A. Keywords: Thematic Structure, Method of Theme Development, Thematic Development, Gender Equality. Every text, whether written or spoken, contains messages or ideas of the writer or the speaker. The organization of clauses in a text can be analyzed to identify the writer‟s idea towards certain topic and to decide whether the text is coherent or not. A coherent text keeps the readers or the audience to focus on the path created by the writer. The purposes of this research are: 1) to explain thematic structures that are found in Emma Watson‟s speech; 2) to explain how gender equality is perceived by Emma Watson in terms of the thematic development of her speech. This study was a qualitative study which focused on spoken discourse analysis. However, some quantitative data were also gained to support the analyses. The data were collected through some steps, such as downloading, watching and reading, identifying the data, tabulating the data, classifying the data, and interpreting the data. Some supporting literatures in books, journals, and articles are collected through documentation method. The data were analyzed by using the theories proposed by Eggins (2004) and Halliday (1994). The results of the analyses show that most of the clauses are declarative clauses so that nominal groups are used frequently as Theme. Theme „I‟, „we‟, „gender equality‟, „men‟, and „women‟ are dominant in the speech. Those Themes are chosen because the speaker wants to focus on the topic of the speech so that her goals can be achieved. Method of Theme development analyses show that the speech used all the three types of method. Zigzag pattern is dominated the speech followed by reiteration and multiple-Rheme patterns. The analysis also revealed the thematic development of the speech which shows the speaker‟s perspective on gender equality by presenting six main ideas. They are: 1. Asking everyone to join her movement directly; 2. Explaining people‟s expectation related to gender; 3. Describing the current concept of feminism; 4. Presenting statistical data; 5. Delivering her new point of view of feminism; and 6. Encouraging everyone to start the change. The researcher gives some suggestions for English education students to be more careful in organizing their text because they will be a role model for their students. English learners also need to raise their awareness in composing a text in order to make their text understandable. Last is the suggestion for discourse analysts to pay more attention to their writing so that the content can be understood well.

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