COMPARING CONJUNCTIVE RELATIVE FOUND IN INNAGURAL SPEECH OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

Abstract

This research deals with Conjunctive Relation found in President Obama’s speech compared to President Trump’s speech. In this case, both speeches are compared using conjunctive relation in Halliday and Matthiessen theory.. The objectives of this research are (1) finding out what are the conjunctive relation processes found in President Obama’s speech (2) finding out what are the conjunctive relation processes found in President Trump’s speech (3) finding out what conjunctive relation process dominates both President Obama and President Trump’s speeches and what does the differences. In order to reach these three objectives, the researcher uses the theory of Halliday. According to Halliday there are five types of conjunction known as additive, adversative, causal, continuative and temporal. Seen from the kind of data analyzed, this is a qualitative research because this research is framed in terms of using words instead of numbers. The percentage of conjunctive relation found in both President Obama and President Trump’s inaugural speech revealed the additive relation as the most dominant conjunctive relation. President Obama’s inaugural speech style was more communicative, evocative and its message conveyed orderly. While, Trump’s style was more conversationally, but it was able to awaken audiences through huge topics were delivered. President Obama and President Trump were able to have credible inaugural speech because they tend to play with the discourses that are indicating promise and request. All those process types were used because both candidates wanted to make their speeches natural, influencing emotionally and convincing psychologically.