GENDER, COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND SPEECH ACTS IN THE 2016 USA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

NURHAYATUN, WILDA (2019) GENDER, COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND SPEECH ACTS IN THE 2016 USA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

The present study aims to identify the communication strategies and speech acts used by both presidential candidates in the 2016 USA presidential debates. Moreover, this study is also intended to scrutinize the speech acts that mark the gender specificity from both male and female presidential candidates. For this purpose, Yule’s theory of adjacency pairs and Austin’s theory of speech acts are used as the theoretical framework in effort to examine the communication strategies and the acts that uttered by both candidates. The descriptive qualitative research design is engaged in this study to analyse and describe the results of the study. In this case, the data of this study were 3 videos of presidential debates and 3 transcriptions of presidential debates that were downloaded from Youtube and websites. This study reveals that: (1) both presidential candidates used 5 kinds of adjacency pairs which are blame – denial, assessment – agreement/disagreement, invitation - acceptance/refusal, request – granting/rejection and question – expected answer/unexpected answer as the communication strategies in effort to attack and defeat the opponent along the debates periods to gain the votes from the voters, (2) both presidential candidates used 3 kinds of speech acts, in which the most dominantly used speech act is the locutionary acts and (3) locutionary acts and representative illocutionary acts are categorized as the speech acts that mark the gender specificity.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): gender, communication strategies, speech acts, presidential debates, the 2016 USA presidential debates.
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2019 02:57
Last Modified: 26 Aug 2019 02:57
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/14393

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